Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.840 of 2012 (2) dt.17-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.840 of 2012 ====================================================== Hari Mohan Bhandari .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 17-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the father of the husband 29.11.2011 is languishing in custody since in a case registered for the offence under [STATUTE] . The accusation is against the petitioner to have instigated the husband and other for making demand of dowry. The victim died on 16.05.2011 for which complaint was lodged on 24.04.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 29.05.2011. It appears that the informant subsequently retracted from his initial version and admitted that the victim died due to snake bite. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.840 of 2012 (2) dt.17-01-2012 petitioner above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Samastipur in connection with Khanpur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011. U. K. (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.