Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.227 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Kumar Verma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 17-01-2012 Petitioner being husband is languishing in custody since November, 2011 in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It appears that the present petitioner filed a police case making accusation that his brother lit fire with the candle to the victim when she was being treated in the hospital, where she died on 27.08.2008 and thereafter the present complaint was filed alleging demand of dowry and torture by the brother of the victim. Considering the fact that no such accusation of demand of dowry or torture was raised when initially the case was filed by the petitioner which clouds the bona fide of the accusation made in the present complaint filed on 18.09.2008 after three weeks of the death of the victim, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Gaya in connection with Complaint Case No. 1610 of 2008. MOHAMMAD 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.