Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37719 of 2011 (3) dt.06-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37719 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Jai Kishun Pandit S/o Late Bisar Pandit. 2. Gena Devi, W/o Jai Kishun Pandit. 3. Gagan Pandit, S/o Jai Kishun Pandit. All resident of Village- Naurangia, P.S. Madhuban, District- East Champaran at Motihari. 4. Kailash Pandit, S/o Sukan Pandit, resident of Village- Sahwazpur, P.S. Shyampur Bhathan, District- Sheohar. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 123 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] . These petitioners are father-in-law, mother-in-law, dewar and distant relation of the husband of the victim. There is allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty and death by hanging the victim and dead body has been disposed of. Leaned counsel for the petitioners submits that there is specific allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty against the husband of the victim and the husband is in jail custody. However, in the case diary there is only general and omnibus allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty against these Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37719 of 2011 (3) dt.06-04-2012 petitioners. Under the facts and circumstances of the case, the above named petitioners in the event of their arrest/surrender within a period of four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikarahna at Motihari, in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 123 of 2011, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of Cr.P.C. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.