Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18537 of 2012 (3) dt.03-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18537 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kanti Devi, 2. Chandan Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 03-07-2012 At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioner no. 2 has already surrendered before the learned court below, hence, this application has become infructuous so far as it relates to petitioner no. 2. Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner no. 1 being mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that in fact the marriage was solemnized eight-nine years prior to the lodging of the case but purposely a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18537 of 2012 (3) dt.03-07-2012 false statement has been made. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner no. 1 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa in connection with Tharthari P.S. Case No. 6 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304B

Statute Text:
Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code. Dowry death. Where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs otherwise than under normal circumstances within seven years of her marriage and it is shown that soon before her death she was subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or any relative of her husband for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, such death shall be called "dowry death", and such husband or relative shall be deemed to have caused her death. Whoever commits dowry death shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven years but which may extend to imprisonment for life.