Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27679 of 2012 (2) dt.06-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27679 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajan Rajvanshi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being brother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the petitioner was separate from the husband. It appears that others have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 47247 and 48016 of 2008 and 8596 of 2010. Considering the aforesaid facts, this court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give similar relief to the petitioner in case the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Haspura P.S. Case no. 66 of 2008 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27679 of 2012 (2) dt.06-08-2012 pending in the court of learned SDJM., Aurangabad. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. 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.