Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6343 of 2012 ====================================================== Shiromani Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband has renewed his prayer for anticipatory bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The case was instituted in the year, 2002 when earlier anticipatory bail of the petitioner was rejected vide order dated 08.09.2004 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 23709 of 2004, this Court is not inclined to revise its earlier order. Let the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Sultanganj P.S. Case No. 144 of 2002 (G.R. No. 1862 of 2002) pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur when the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6343 of 2012 (3) dt.06-03-2012 2/2 learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner considering the fact that petitioner is lady and thrust of accusation is against the husband without being prejudiced by this order. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.