Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16236 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Biltu Sahni 2. Pawan Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the father of the husband and husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after seven years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim has committed suicide and admittedly the occurrence took place after seven years of the marriage, hence, the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] . Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16236 of 2012 (2) dt.03-05-2012 2/2 Considering the thrust of accusation against petitioner no. 2, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner no. 2 Pawan Sahni, who is the husband of the deceased. So petitioner no. 1 is concerned, since there is no specific accusation against petitioner no. 1, let the above named petitioner no. 1 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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, Darbhanga in connection with Jalley P.S. Case No. 141 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.