Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3917 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamal Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Petitioner being younger brother of the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. There is no specific accusation against the petitioner and it is submitted that husband is in custody and others have been granted anticipatory bail in the matter. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Kamal Yadav, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3917 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Manjhi P.S. Case No. 34 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.