Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10945 of 2012 ====================================================== Binod Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after three years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that when the victim was taken to hospital, her fardbeyan was recorded where she admitted that she got accidentally burnt. It is further submitted that during investigation, the accusation was found false and final form was submitted but differing with the same, the cognizance has been taken. Considering the fact that during investigation the accusation was found false, let the above named petitioner be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10945 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 2/2 released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Kalyanpur P.S. Case No. 83 of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.