Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20932 of 2012 (4) dt.03-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 20932 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Nandu Singh @ Nandu Prasad Singh 2. Kunti Devi @ Kanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 4 03-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail in a case under [STATUTE] . The petitioners are the father-in-law and mother-in-law. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there is no specific allegation against these petitioners about subjecting cruelty and the petitioners are in jail since 07.11.2011. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioners above named are ordered to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Sessions’ Judge, Fast Track Court II, Sitamarhi in connection with S. Tr. No. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20932 of 2012 (4) dt.03-07-2012 114 of 2012 arising out of Sitamarhi P. S. Case No. 241 of 2010, subject to the conditions that the husband shall surrender in this case and the trial court at the time of accepting the bail bonds shall satisfy himself that the husband has surrendered. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.