Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43738 of 2011 ====================================================== Maharani Devi, Wife of Ajay Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with Kahalgaon P.S. Case No. 238 of 2011 for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] , pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur. After some arguments, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this application with a liberty to surrender before the court below within a fortnight for a prayer of regular bail, which shall be considered on its own merit, without being prejudiced of instant withdrawal. Permission is granted. Accordingly, this application stands disposed of as withdrawn. Further, as prayed for on behalf of the petitioner, learned court below may dispose of the case preferably on the same day. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.