Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35623 of 2012 (4) dt.18-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35623 of 2012 ====================================================== Samundri Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand by putting her on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim died due to the accidental fire and the same fact is admitted by the mother and sister-in- law of the victim, which has been recorded in paragraph 36 and 37 of the case diary when the medical assistance was given by the petitioner side. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35623 of 2012 (4) dt.18-12-2012 named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned SDJM, Sheohar in connection with Tariyani P.S. Case No. 82 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.