Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23007 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Anarsi Devi 2. Satya Narain Yadav. 3. Nirmal Yadav @ Nirmal Kumar Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parents and brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. A statement has been made in para 7 of the petition that only the husband has been charge sheeted and the investigation with regard to the petitioners is still pending. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the deceased, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23007 of 2012 (2) dt.03-07-2012 2/2 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, Bhagalpur in connection with Pirpainty P.S. Case No. 204 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted by learned court below on filing of the affidavit by the petitioners that they will co-operate in the investigation. Non-co-operation in the investigation by the petitioners will give liberty to the prosecution side to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.