Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18837 of 2012 ====================================================== Binod Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 28-06-2012 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 5 to 6 years of the marriage by administering poison. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that supervising authority has found the case true under [STATUTE] . Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner keeping in view of the aforesaid submission of the petitioner without being prejudiced by the order of this Court, if the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18837 of 2012 (3) dt.28-06-2012 2/2 surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Hathauri P.S. Case No. 66 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur. 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.