Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3553 of 2012 ====================================================== Chhathi Lal Baitha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the victim was married with the petitioner on 17.5.2005 but subsequently, for non fulfillment of dowry demands, she was killed. As per own statement of the informant, who is the father, the victim died on 8.3.2008 when the complaint was filed on 14.3.2008 which came to be registered as police case on 11.2.2009. During investigation, the accusation was found to be false and final form was submitted but differing with the same, cognizance has been taken. Considering the delayed lodging of the complaint and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3553 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 that accusation was found to be false during investigation, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra in connection with Jalalpur P.S. Case No. 7 /2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.