Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41853 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandrama Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the sister-in-law (bhabhi) of the husband of the victim is 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-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant got burnt injury when she was given medical assistance and she died after ten days of the admission in the hospital when the neighbour of the victim in para 12 of the case diary, stated that the victim fought with her husband when she put herself on fire. Learned APP submits that in para 9 of the case diary, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41853 of 2012 (2) dt.06-12-2012 2/2 the neighbour of the victim stated that the petitioner sprinkled kerosene oil and put the victim on fire. Considering the death after more than five years of the marriage when there are inconsistent statement of the neighbuors and the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband who, as per the learned counsel for the petitioner, is in custody, let the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Govindganj (Areraj) P.S. Case No. 114 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 498A

Statute Text:
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. Punishment for subjecting a married woman to Cruelty. Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.