Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12628 of 2011 (5) dt.06-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12628 of 2011 ====================================================== Sunil Yadav @ Sunil Kumar Yadav, son of Satya Narayan Yadav, resident of village Badhwa Tola @ Baghua Tola, P.s. Pirpainty, district Bhagalpur .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 5 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] and 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. There is allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty and it has been alleged that the victim has been done to death and the death is by strangulation. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. It has been submitted that the case is at the stage of trial and only one witness is remained to be examined, who is the doctor. If the trial is not concluded within six months, then the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.