Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32857 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Pukar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-09-2012 Petitioner being father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accusation is not specific against the petitioner when husband of the victim has already surrendered and informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Ram Pukar Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32857 of 2012 (2) dt.10-09-2012 2 / 2 2 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 A.C.J.M., Barh in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 70 of 2008. 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.