Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3467 of 2012 ====================================================== Lakhindrasahani & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 15-03-2012 Petitioners being husband and step-son are languishing in custody since 25.07.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the F.I.R. the informant has admitted that victim was married with petitioner No. 1 ten years prior to the occurrence and since victim was not ready to keep the step-son being petitioner No. 2, due to that dispute she committed suicide. From the own version of the informant, the case prima facie does not come under the purview of [STATUTE] . Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Lakhindra Sahani 2. Meghai Sahani, be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3467 of 2012 (3) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Musahari P.S. Case No. 50 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.