Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40846 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Amarjeet Sah 2. Ranjay Sah. 3. Thakur @ Karpoori Thakur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is alleged against these petitioners being the co- villagers of the husband of the victim that they assisted the main accused to take the victim to hospital and they also participated in cremation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are not the family members of the husband of the victim. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40846 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 2/2 arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Sadar, Motihari in connection with Pipra Kothi P.S. Case No. 186 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.