Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25296 of 2012 ====================================================== Shivpujan Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the daughter of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within three years of marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted that victim died due to accidental death when there was no demand of dowry. In view of this Court, it is not a case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Prayer for anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is rejected in connection with Kartaha P.S. Case No. 30 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Vaishali at Hajipur. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25296 of 2012 (2) dt.24-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.