Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40599 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sheopujan Rai 2. Ashok Rai 3. Manister Rai @ Munister Rai @ Munister Kumar 4. Mukesh Rai 5. Rajwanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-11-2012 Petitioners being father, brothers and brothers’ wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after four years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accusation is omnibus and general when the husband of the victim has not been made accused and subsequently the informant has retracted from the initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40599 of 2012 (2) dt.22-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra in connection with Dariapur P.S. Case No. 57 of 2012. The bail bonds of the petitioners will be accepted on filing affidavit that they will cooperate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.