Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14605 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sunita Devi 2. Chameli Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 19-06-2012 Petitioners being sister and wife of the brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] ., subsequently [STATUTE] . was also added. Accusation is of pouring kerosene oil by these petitioners and husband of the deceased and litting her on fire, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. The fardbeyan is based on the statement of the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation it has come that the victim was taken out from the room which was locked from inside which denies the accusation. Considering the fact that fardbeyan is the statement of the victim herself, this Court is not inclined to interfere, the application stands rejected. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner No. 1 namely Sunita Devi sympathetically and try Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14605 of 2012 (4) dt.19-06-2012 2 / 2 2 to dispose off the same on the same day, if petitioner No. 1 surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Hussainganj P.S. Case No. 198 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.