Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41912 of 2012 (2) dt.06-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41912 of 2012 ====================================================== Rabina Kumari @ Rubi Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 06-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the brother’s daughter of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently, [STATUTE] was also added. In the fard-beyan of the victim it is alleged that for the feeding cow milk to her children the accused persons including this petitioner tied hands and legs of the victim and put her on fire and subsequently she succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is against the entire in-laws family and the petitioner is a unmarried girl. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41912 of 2012 (2) dt.06-12-2012 Considering the fact that there is accusation against the entire in-laws family including the petitioner and the petitioner is a unmarried girl, this Court is reluctantly allowing the above named petitioner to be released on provisional anticipatory bail till the conclusion of the investigation in the event of her 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 CJM, Gopalganj in connection with Uchakagaon P.S. Case No. 132 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.