Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23399 of 2012 ====================================================== Birsan Keshari @ Amit Keshri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-07-2012 Petitioner being younger brother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand after two and half years of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that victim got accidental burnt injury when she was given medical assistance and after 40 days of the death the case was lodged and at earlier point of time the informatory petition was filed by the father of the husband of the deceased. Considering the fact that specific accusation is not alleged against the petitioner and after 40 days of the death of the victim, the F.I.R. has been lodged, let the petitioner namely Birsan Keshari @ Amit Keshari, in the event of his arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23399 of 2012 (2) dt.10-07-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Dawath P.S. Case No. 7 of 2012. 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.