Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4607 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed in the year 2002 whereas in the year 2006 the victim was poisoned to death. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation the police found the accusation false and submitted final form since the victim was given medical assistance and the medical opinion does not reflect any injury to the victim but on protest on 26.02.2009 the cognizance has been taken. Considering the fact that during investigation the accusation prima facie was not found true, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4607 of 2012 (3) dt.23-03-2012 2/ 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Complaint Case No. C-2120 of 2007, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.