Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18074 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Chirag Alam 2. Noorjahan Khatoon @ Most. Noor Jahan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.19288 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Soyeb Alam .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 15-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the State and the informant. The petitioners being the mother, brother of the husband and husband himself of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torturing the daughter of the informant to the extent that within three years of the marriage the daughter of the informant committed suicide. The post-mortem reflects ligature mark on the neck corroborating the accusation levelled by the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18074 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2/2 informant. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to Md. Soyed Alam, who is the husband of the deceased, hence, his application is rejected. Since the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the deceased, let the petitioners Chirag Alam and Noorjahan Khatoon @ Most. Noor Jahan be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Kadwa (Ballia Beloun) P.S. Case No. 75 of 2012, 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.