Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20978 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20978 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Deepak Sah, 2. Neelam Devi, 3. Raushan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being husband, mother and brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after two years of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the victim was suffering from some serious illness for which she was given treatment and the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. So far as petitioner no. 1, who is husband of the deceased is concerned, this court is not inclined to grant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20978 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 anticipatory bail to him. His prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. However, considering the retracted version of the informant, let the above named petitioner nos. 2 and 3 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga in connection with Jale P.S. Case No. 28 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.