Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3257 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Ray & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Petitioner No. 1 being husband and petitioner Nos. 2 to 5 being family members of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is that due to some medicine administered by the husband the victim’s pregnancy got terminated in 2005 and the victim died during treatment in 2005, when the police case was registered in 2007 under [STATUTE] . in which accusation was found false and final form was submitted which was accepted and thereafter the present complaint was lodged by the father of the victim in 2010. Delayed lodging of the complaint in the background of final form being accepted by learned Court below in a case registered under [STATUTE] . clouds Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3257 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Munna Ray 2. Logen Ray 3. Nirmala Devi 4. Jogen Ray 5. Nogsari Devi, 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Purnea in connection with C.A. 2402 of 2010. 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.