Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24460 of 2012 ====================================================== Fulchand Singh, Son of Sri Birendra Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] , is one of the named accused in this case being husband of deceased sister of the informant, who died under unnatural circumstances and the body appears also disposed of in hest. Submission is of false implication and the informant also entered into compromise for which petition is on record, but taking into consideration absence of any explanation about the manner of death, treatment, if any, provided etc., for the present, prayer for regular bail of the above named petitioner in connection with Nalanda P.S. Case No. 78/2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharshariff, is hereby, refused. Simultaneously, court below is directed to proceed expeditiously with the trial and avoid undue delay and adjournments. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.