Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.520 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Sakal Singh. 2. Kewala Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 11-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed in the year 2007 and accusations are of demand of motorcycle and torture. It appears that when the victim committed suicide the UD case has been registered but subsequently after eight days of the registration of the UD case the present case has been lodged by filing the complaint which was subsequently registered as a police case. It appears from the complaint that there is no specific accusation against these petitioners. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners 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 the 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, Siwan in connection with Siswan P.S. Case No. 23/2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.