Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44402 of 2011 ====================================================== Ramesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 02.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the victim was killed for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand after three years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim was taken to the hospital when she was suffering from acute diarrhoea and during investigation the witnesses have admitted that medical assistance was given and the informant was informed about illness. Considering the fact that petitioner is the husband, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner for the present in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 333 of 2010 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44402 of 2011 (3) dt.07-03-2012 2/2 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.