Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8942 of 2012 ====================================================== Reshmi Devi & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Petitioners being mother and brother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that husband and other accused persons have been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 421 of 2011 and 635 of 2011 when informant has retracted from initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Reshmi Devi 2. Shambhu Rai, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8942 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Chapra Mufassil P.S. Case No. 178 of 2010. Learned Trial Court will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioners, if the petitioners defaults for three consecutive occasions. 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.