Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5271 of 2012 ====================================================== Brajesh Tiwary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband is languishing in jail since 20.12.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of killing the victim within few months of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands and disposing of the dead body. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner in Fatehpur P.S. Case no. 278 of 2011 pending in the court of C.J.M. Gaya. The prayer for bail is rejected. Anil/- (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.