Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16699 of 2012 ====================================================== Roshan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-05-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing sister of the informant, after three years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that victim died due to snake bite. It is further submitted that others have been granted anticipatory bail in the matter. In view of the fact that petitioner is the husband, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The application stands rejected. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner without being prejudice by the order of this Court. Shageer/- (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.