Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3372 of 2012 ====================================================== Rani Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 02-02-2012 Petitioner being wife of the brother of the husband is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the victim for non- fulfilment of dowry demand. It appears that informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect. It is submitted that considering the same, husband has been granted regular bail. Considering the aforesaid submissions and the fact that petitioner is a lady, let the petitioner namely Rani 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3372 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2 / 2 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No. 83 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.