Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3909 of 2012 ====================================================== Jahangir Mansoori .... .... 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 husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the victim by setting her on fire after five years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that when the occurrence took place, none was in the house and it was petitioner who took the victim to the hospital and provided medical assistance, that can be considered at the time regular bail of the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner without being prejudiced by the order of this Court and keeping in view that others have been granted anticipatory Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3909 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 bail in the matter. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off in connection with Nardiganj P.S. Case No. 28 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.