Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3766 of 2012 ====================================================== Sonalal Rai, Son of Ram Sewal Rai, Resident of Village-Parsa, Police Station-Ishuapur, District-Saran at Chapra. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA) 2 25-01-2012 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is accused of the case registered under [STATUTE] . The informant Dhrupdeo Rai has married his daughter Guddi Kumari with Ranjay Rai on 15.06.2010. The informant received information that Guddi Kumari has been killed and her dead body has been made to disappear. Submission is that the petitioner is father-in-law of the deceased and other accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail. The husband of the deceased is already in custody. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3766 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-201 2/22 the above named petitioner is directed to be released on bail 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/court concerned, Saran at Chapra in connection with Ishuapur P.S. Case No. 45 of 2011. KKSINHA/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, 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.