Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1758 of 2012 Piaria Devi & Anr. Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 18.01.2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. The occurrence is of 28.04.2011, when the complaint was filed on 19.05.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 01.07.2011. It appears that subsequently the informant has retracted from initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. The delayed lodging of the complaint and the retracted version of the informant cloud the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Piaria Devi 2. Lalsa Kumari, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Buxar in connection with Nawanagar P.S. Case No. 96 of 2011, arising out of Complaint Case No. 415C of 2011. Shageer ( 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.