Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26852 of 2012 ====================================================== Gita Devi & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 27-08-2012 Petitioners being parents and brother 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 sister of the informant, after administering poison and throttling the neck. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that postmortem reflects no external injury particularly the resisting injury which has been brought on record by supplementary affidavit. It is further submitted that the informant in his 164 Cr.P.C. statement has not named the petitioners and informant has retracted from initial version. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Gita Devi 2. Niranjan Rai 3. Pintu Kumar @ Pintu Rai, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26852 of 2012 (3) dt.27-08-2012 2 / 2 2 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 A.C.J.M., Danapur at Patna in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 128 of 2011. 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.