Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13438 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in connection with Patepur P.S. Case No. 67 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that though, the informant, in First Information Report, stated that the victim conveyed him about putting her on fire by this petitioner but the informant has filed a petition before the learned court below retracting from his initial version and for the occurrence of 03.06.2011 the FIR was lodged on 13.06.2011. In view of this Court, it is fit ground for consideration of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13438 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.