Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32141 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mintu Rai @ Mithu Rai 2. Most. Rajpato Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-09-2012 Petitioners being brother and mother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that informant’s daughter was married with one Jutul Rai in 2006 when she was killed for non- fulfilment of dowry demand for which complaint was filed on 16.04.2010 which came to be registered as police case on 14.12.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant filed informatory petition on 02.07.2009 where she alleged that Randhir Manjhi has kidnapped the daughter of the informant and with similar accusation the husband of the victim lodged Chapra Mufassil P.S. Case No. 256 of 2011 on 14.12.2011 itself in which the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32141 of 2012 (2) dt.04-09-2012 2 / 2 2 present informant is a witness. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Mintu Rai @ Mithu Rai 2. Most. Rajpato Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra at Saran in connection with Chapra Mufassil P.S. Case No. 257 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.