Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8989 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8989 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Yadav .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Madan Jeet Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party : Ms. Sharda Kumari, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 06.03.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. According to the prosecution case itself, marriage of the deceased took place with the petitioner in the year 2002 and the deceased died on 9.6.2010 but in spite of the aforesaid fact, present case has been registered under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that no doubt, petitioner is husband of the deceased but, as a matter of fact, deceased died of her natural death and when the aforesaid fact came to knowledge of the informant, he filed compromise petition which is evident from annexure 2 to this petition. Taking into consideration that the deceased died after eight years of her marriage and no specific overt-act has been attributed against the petitioner, let the petitioner, Ajay Yadav, 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 Fast Track Court I, Bhojpur Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8989 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 at Ara in Sessions trial no. 249/2011 arising out of Pawana P.S. Case no. 19/2010. 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.