Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.596 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhola Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the brother of the husband is languishing in jail since 29.8.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand within few months of the marriage. The postmortem report reflects no external injury, however, it was suspected that death was caused by poisoning. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no resisting injury has been found and it was the husband, who took the victim to hospital. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband who, as per the learned counsel for the petitioner, is in custody, let the above named petitioner be released Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.596 of 2012 (3) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of J.M. Saran at Chapra in Kopa P.S. Case no. 48 of 2011 (U.T. No. 193 of 2011) . Anil/- (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.