Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28765 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramjeet Kumar @ Paramjeet Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in Dhanarua P.S. Case No. 132 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub- divisional Judicial Magistrate, Masaurhi, Patna. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that several independent witnesses have suggested that the petitioner was not present at the place of occurrence. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the same is rejected. 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.