Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12961 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12961 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shankar Choudhary S/O Ram Amit Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur 2. Lalit Choudhary S/O Shankar Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur 3. Sushila Devi @ Rekha Devi W/O Shankar Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-05-2012 Petitioners are father-in-law, brother-in-law and mother- in-law of the deceased respectively. They apprehend their arrest in a case under [STATUTE] on the allegation that they all used to demand dowry and ultimately done away the daughter of complainant. Petitioners submit that the deceased died in Delhi and they had no concern with the day to day life of the deceased and her husband. Even petitioner Lalit Chaudhary live separately from them. In the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, petitioner no.2 and 3 as mentioned above would be released on bail on their Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12961 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 furnishing bail bond of Rs.5,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in Mansoorchak Police Station Case No. 4 of 2009. Prayer for bail of petitioner no.1 is rejected with direction to surrender and seek regular bail which would be disposed of on its own merit without prejudice. Shashi./- (Samarendra Pratap 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.