Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21225 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 21225 of 2012 =================================================== Bachchi Devi W/o Ram Jiwan Singh Resident of Village- Nargi Kiwar Tola, P.S.- Saraiya (Jatipur O.P.), District- Muzaffarpur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s =================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER 02. 06.09.2012 The Petitioner seeks quashing of the order dated 25.01.2012 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C.-II, Muzaffarpur in S.Tr. No. 465 of 2007 by which he has refused to discharge the Petitioner in a case under [STATUTE] . It has been submitted that initially the deceased had given a statement wherein she had not incriminated her in-laws but subsequently on coercion of her parents she filed the present First Information Report in which she implicated the in-laws and, hence, the Petitioner should be discharged. Since this can be no ground for discharge, I am not inclined to interfere in the matter. The application is dismissed. Vikash/- (Anjana Prakash, 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.