Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19926 of 2012 ====================================================== Sursati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-06-2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was separate from the husband and there is no specific accusation against the petitioner. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioner will surrender within a period of four weeks, let the petitioner namely Sursati Devi, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19926 of 2012 (2) dt.21-06-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Goreakothi(G.B. Nagar) P.S. Case NO. 147 of 2011, G.R. NO. 3581 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on surrender of the husband of the deceased. 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.