Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6133 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Hare Ram Sahu S/O Late Jugeshwar Sahu Resident Of Village- Sanhauli, P.S.- Kusheshwarsthan, District- Darbhanga 2. Sudama Devi W/O Sri Hare Ram Sahu Resident Of Village- Sanhauli, P.S.- Kusheshwarsthan, District- Darbhanga .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Shiv Narayan Sah S/O Late Raiyama Sah Resident Of Village- Ghor- Daur, P.S.- Kusheshwarsthan, District- Darbhanga .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 02-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim by administering poison after six years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim was residing at Delhi and there was a partition in 2006. Considering the fact that victim died after six years of the marriage, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6133 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Biraul at Benipur (Darbhanga) in connection with Kusheshwarsthan P.S. Case No. 177 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.