Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25453 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25453 of 2012 ====================================================== Gayatri Devi @ Gaytri Kumari & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 Petitioners being unmarried sister and mother 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 three years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that subsequently the dead body was recovered from the well, when no external injury was found and doctor found cause of death as Asphyxia due to drowning. It is further submitted that husband is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Gaytri Devi @ Gaytri Kumari 2. Kailashiya 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 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25453 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Assaon P.S. Case No. 21 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304

Statute Text:
Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, If act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.