Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17014 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramgahan Singh @ Bhuar Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the elder brother of husband of deceased is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after five years of marriage for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It appears that accusation has been levelled against the husband and other family members of husband but the husband died during investigation when other family members have not been sent up for trial and only petitioner has been charge sheeted and cognizance has been taken in the matter on 07.05.2011. Considering the fact that accusation against rest family members have not been found true during investigation, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17014 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 2 / 2 2 let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bagan Gola P.S. Case No. 01 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned J.M. Ist Class, Buxar, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Let learned court below positively cancel the bail of the petitioner if the petitioner defaults for three consecutive occasions during trial. U.K./- (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.