Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14655 of 2012 ====================================================== Krishna Panjiyar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-04-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after two years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that postmortem reflects no external injury when the viscera has been preserved. It is further submitted that informant has retracted from the initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. That can be a good ground for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Bathnaha P.S. Case No. 33 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14655 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2 / 2 2 With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. 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.