Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11382 of 2012 ====================================================== Sakudhan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and [STATUTE] was also added later on. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within few months of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. Specific case of the informant was that in the hospital the victim conveyed her that this petitioner and her husband set her on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant has retracted from the initial version and has not supported her version what she stated in the FIR and filed an affidavit to that effect before the learned court below. It is further submitted that the husband is in custody. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11382 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the retracted version of the informant and that petitioner is a lady, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Town P.S. Case No. 371 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The informant will be one of the bailors of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.