Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30812 of 2012 (3) dt.04-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30812 of 2012 ====================================================== Rameshwar Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 04.10.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 30.4.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The deceased died within one year of her marriage on account of burn injury. It is alleged that she was burnt to death by the petitioner and other accused on account of non-fulfillment of dowry demand. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that no specific overt-act has been attributed against the petitioner and moreover, husband of the deceased has already been remanded to judicial custody. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Rameshwar Ram, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Gaurav Aanand, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Begusarai in Fulwaria P.S. Case no. 65/2006. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.