Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6581 of 2012 ====================================================== Balmiki Bhagat @ Balmiki Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of sister of the informant 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 three years of marriage for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that trial has already commenced. In that view of the matter, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is rejected in connection with Bhorey P.S. Case No. 58 of 2010 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Gopalganj. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6581 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.