Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.199 of 2012 ====================================================== Panchratan Singh .... .... 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 father of the husband of the victim is languishing in jail since 17.8.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within slightly over one year of the marriage by causing fire arm injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that it was this petitioner, who informed the informant side and while he was taking the victim to the hospital he was arrested. More over, since the son of the petitioner performed court marriage with another girl, hence, but the petitioner cannot be held responsible for that. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the rifle was in the name of the petitioner when the empty Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.199 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 cartridges were recovered from the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the rifle has not bee sent for ballistic examination. Considering the nature of accusation, this court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner in Rajpur P.S. Case no. 83 of 2011. Prayer for bail is rejected. However, the petitioner will be at liberty to renew his prayer for bail after remaining in custody for one year. 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.