Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27520 of 2012 (3) dt.27-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27520 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Nandlal Ram S/O Lae Tukar Ram 2. Phool Kumari Devi @ Ful Kumari Devi W/O Nandlal Ram 3. Sona Ram S/O Nandlal Ram 4. Sushila Devi W/O Sona Ram 5. Birendra Ram S/O Nandlal Ram 6. Bhagmania Devi W/O Bhuyan Ram, all residents of village – Kanhauli Manohar Tola Karta Ram, P.S. – Baniapur, District – Saran. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 27-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents, brothers and sister 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 daughter of the informant. It is submitted that since the father in law earlier lodged complaint case no. 1048 of 2011 against the victim, hence, the father of the victim has lodged the present case after sending her daughter somewhere else. The victim has still not been located. This court is not inclined to interfere only because the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27520 of 2012 (3) dt.27-09-2012 case was instituted in 2007. However, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners in case the petitioners surrender within six weeks from today in connection with Baniyapur P.S. Case no. 45 of 2007 pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Saran at Chapra. It is expected from the learned below that the bail application of the petitioners is disposed of preferably on the same day, if possible. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioners. 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.