Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1626 of 2012 ====================================================== Rahul Kumar @ Rahul Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the younger brother of the husband is apprehending arrest in connection with Silao P.S. Case No. 96 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Bihar Sharif. The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand after three years of the marriage. It appears that the mother of the husband has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 40155 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1626 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.