Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37176 of 2011 (3) dt.08-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37176 of 2011 ====================================================== Subodh Rai @ Subodh Kr. Rai .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER ----------- 03/ 08.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 12.8.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act but after investigation, police submitted charge sheet under [STATUTE] against the petitioner only. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that deceased was a patient of tuberculosis and, as a matter of fact, she died of her ailment and that is the reason neither any external nor any internal injury was found at the time of post mortem of the deceased. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Subodh Rai @ Subodh Kr. Rai, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingsarai in Vidyapati Nagar P.S. Case no. 20/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.