Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18578 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Keshari & Anr. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner no.1 being the brother-in-law (Bahnoi) and petitioner no. 2 being the married sister of husband of deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant for non-fulfillment of dowry demand after 2 ½ years of marriage. It is submitted that victim got accidental burnt injury when she was given medical assistance and after 40 days of death case was lodged and at earlier point of time the informatory petition was filed by father of husband of deceased. Considering the fact that petitioners are brother-in-law and married sister of husband of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18578 of 2012 (2) dt.18-05-2012 2 / 2 2 deceased and there is no specific accusation against the petitioners, let the petitioners, Vijay Keshari and Tinki Devi, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Dawath P.S. Case No. 07 of 2012 (G. R. No. 142 of 2012) on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Rohtas at Sasaram, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.