Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5022 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Fulchand Singh S/O Sri Birendra Singh Resident Of Village- Kool, P.S.- Nalanda, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim conveyed to the informant that she consumed poison and it was petitioner’s side who took the victim to the hospital and informant subsequently retracted from his earlier version. In view of this Court, the aforesaid facts can be a good ground for consideration of regular bail. Let Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5022 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 2/2 the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Nalanda P.S. Case No. 78 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif when the learned court below will consider the prayer for bail of the petitioner and pass appropriate order. 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.