Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25923 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-07-2012 Petitioner being brother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the niece of the informant, after two years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that father of the husband of the victim has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 18832 of 2010. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, preferably on the same day, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Isuapur P.S. Case No. 04 of 2006, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Saran at Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25923 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Chapra. 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.