Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23187 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramjee Mishra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vivekanand Pathak, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. J.N. Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 31-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s daughter was married with the petitioner on 04.07.2010 and she was being burnt on 10.04.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim died due to the accidental fire and the medical assistance was given to the victim. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23187 of 2012 (3) dt.31-08-2012 2/2 surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Shapur P.S. Case No. 85 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.