Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20299 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Haroon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased 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 the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the post-mortem reflects no injury when the viscera has been preserved. In view of this Court, the aforesaid contention of the petitioner can be considered by the learned court below if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20299 of 2012 (2) dt.10-07-2012 2/2 weeks from today in connection with Sessions Trial No. 1188 of 2010 arising out of Jalalgarh P.S. Case No. 54 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C. 3, Purnea. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.