Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35894 of 2012 ====================================================== Usha Devi & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-09-2012 Petitioners being mother and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant after three years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners and informant has retracted from initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Usha Devi 2. Gyanti Devi, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35894 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Beur P.S. Case No. 148 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.