Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41566 of 2012 (2) dt.03-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41566 of 2012 ====================================================== Tara Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-12-2012 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 4 to 5 years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is omnibus and general against entire in-laws family when it is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the victim in her statement in hospital has named this petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner keeping in view of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41566 of 2012 (2) dt.03-12-2012 old age, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Lauriya P.S. Case No. 75 of 2012 pending in the court of learned CJM, Bettiah, West Champaran. 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.