Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.245 of 2012 Nasir Miya @ Nasir Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 04.01.2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly the wife of the petitioner died within seven years of the marriage due to the burnt injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that F.I.R. does not specified that what kind of demand was made by the petitioner and petitioner was working outside State and the witnesses have supported that the victim committed suicide. In view of this Court, it is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. The application for grant of anticipatory bail stands rejected in connection with Kanti P.S. Case No. 41 of 2010 pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M.(West) Muzaffarpur. 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.