Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40630 of 2012 ====================================================== Meghnath Pandit .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B) and 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted that the specific accusation is not against this petitioner when as per own admission of the informant in the opening lines of the F.I.R. that the marriage was performed eight years prior to occurrence hence the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] . and during investigation case was found true under [STATUTE] . Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40630 of 2012 (2) dt.22-11-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Barahara P.S. Case No. 105 of 2012(G.R. No. 1264 of 2012) on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bhojpur at Arrah, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 306

Statute Text:
Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code. Abetting the Commission of suicide. If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.