Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44124 of 2012 ====================================================== Usha Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-12-2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after eleven months of the marriage, for non- fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that informant is father of the victim and he submitted a written report before the Officer-in-Charge on 10.04.2012 that the victim died natural death and on 12.04.2012 the present prosecution report was submitted when there is no specific accusation against the petitioner. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioner, will Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44124 of 2012 (2) dt.12-12-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender within a period of six weeks, let the petitioner namely Usha Devi, in the event of her 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 43 of 2012. The bail bonds of the petitioner will be accepted on surrender of the husband of the victim. 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.