Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13355 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13355 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Paswan @ Deepak Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 20.04.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being younger brother-in-law is in jail custody since 30.11.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is suffering from mental disease and moreover, being junior member of the family, he is not responsible for commission of the alleged crime. It is also pointed out by him that the deceased died of diarrhoea. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Deepak Paswan @ Deepak Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur District Patna in Bihta P.S. Case no. 241/2011, if any undertaking is given by the friend or relative of the petitioner as contained in section 330 of the Cr.P.C. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.