Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8600 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8600 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjiv Kumar Jha @ Bulbul @ Sanjiv Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 02.03.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being elder brother-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 9.1.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Although deceased died within six months of her marriage and there is allegation of demand of dowry as well as torture against the in-laws of the deceased but submission on behalf of the petitioner is that petitioner does not have any concern with the affair of the husband of the deceased and moreover, husband of the deceased has already been remanded in judicial custody and no specific material has come against the petitioner in course of investigation. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Sanjiv Kumar Jha @ Bulbul @ Sanjiv Jha, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Naugachia District Bhagalpur in Bihpur (Bhawanipur) P.S. Case no. 08/2012. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.