Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28913 of 2012 (3) dt.13-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28913 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Umar Faruque .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 13-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. 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 against the petitioner that he killed his wife within four years of the marriage when it is alleged that there was demand of dowry and the victim was taken by this petitioner from her parents’ house in June, 2011 when she was killed on 14.08.2011. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Barauni P.S. Case No. 297 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28913 of 2012 (3) dt.13-12-2012 Begusarai. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.