Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22330 of 2011 (4) dt.01-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22330 of 2011 ====================================================== Shaikh Mokhtar & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA) 04/ 01.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased in jail custody since 25.3.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that some co–accused persons have already been granted privilege of anticipatory bail by another bench of this court and so far as petitioners are concerned, they are old and sick persons and, as a matter of fact, they have no concern about affairs of the husband of the deceased. No doubt, the deceased died within a very short span of her marriage in other than normal circumstances but considering the aforesaid submissions as well as period of detention of the petitioners in jail custody, let the petitioners, Shaikh Mokhtar and Saira Khatoon, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Rajeev Kumar, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bettiah District West Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22330 of 2011 (4) dt.01-02-2012 Champaran in Maintand P.S. Case no. 14/2009. Shahid Hassan (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.