Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20089 of 2012 (5) dt.19-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20089 of 2012 ========================================= Bhangi Yadav, son of Late Bauku Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ========================================= CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 5 19-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. This application has been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner who has been made an accused in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is one of the named accused in this case being father-in-law of deceased daughter of the informant who after suffering a lot died under unnatural circumstance and body was also disposed of. Submission is of false implication, in fact, deceased gave birth of male child roughly five months before her death by surgery and some complication developed subsequently, resulting into her death and body is also disposed of on due intimation, but the prosecution with ulterior motive got the case instituted three days thereafter without any cogent explanation and the very person said to have narrated occurrence regarding disposal of the body has not come forward for getting his statement recorded. Husband of the deceased is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20089 of 2012 (5) dt.19-09-2012 in custody. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul, in connection with Pipra P.S. Case No. 53/2011, with a condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case, in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.