Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40645 of 2012 ====================================================== Badri Jaiswal@ Badri Pd. Jaiswal .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his 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 marriage for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has only been roped in this case because he was negotiated the marriage of the daughter of the informant but he is not the family member when the final form was submitted against F.I.R. named accused persons but differing with the same cognizance has been taken and others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 40997/2011, 41000/2011 and 14432 of 2012. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40645 of 2012 (2) dt.22-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Shivnarainpur (Kahalgaon)P.S. Case No. 133 of 2007, G.R. No. 850 of 2007 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned J.M. Ist Class, Bhagalpur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.