Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8615 of 2012 ====================================================== Kali Mohan@Kali Mohan Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed in the year 2003 when the victim died in the year 2006. The complainant in the complaint petition has admitted that he received information about the death on 10.05.2006 when the complaint was filed on 01.12.2010 which came to be registered on 23.03.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the complaint which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, 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 Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rosera, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8615 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2/ 2 Samastipur in connection with Hathauri P.S. Case No. 08 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Three consecutive defaults by petitioner will give liberty to the learned court below to positively cancel the bail 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.