Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35767 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shail Devi 2. Sarswati Devi. 3. Brij Kishore Prasad. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-09-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make necessary correction in the prayer portion of the petition. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the mother, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the niece of the informant after six years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation it has come that the victim committed suicide. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim who, as per counsel for the petitioners, is in custody, let the above named petitioners be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35767 of 2012 (2) dt.21-09-2012 2/2 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Raxaul, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with Darpa P.S. Case No. 31 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.