Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40953 of 2012 (2) dt.09-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40953 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Kumar Sharma, son of Shankar Thakur, resident of village Mahodipur, Tola Bhth, P.S. Majhaulia, District West Champaran .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MIHIR KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 2 09-10-2012 Considering the fact that the petitioner is the husband and has been made accused for offence under [STATUTE] and that the deceased wife of the petitioner had gone alongwith the petitioner on the intervention of the court only on 18.2.2012,whereafter her death had taken place soonafter in suspicious circumstances, this Court would not be inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail of the petitioner is, accordingly, rejected. surendra/- (Mihir Kumar Jha, 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.