Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28266 of 2012 (3) dt.11-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28266 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that about seven years after the marriage the daughter of the informant was killed for non fulfillment of dowry demands when the petitioner was not made accused. It is submitted that the informant being the mother of the victim has not alleged anything in the FIR. Brothers of the victim were examined in paragraphs 25 and 27 when they also did not support the prosecution version. Only suspicion has been raised against the petitioner by the supervising officer when it is submitted that since the informant has admitted the death after seven years of the marriage then the doubt by the supervision officer has no value as the case under [STATUTE] itself is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28266 of 2012 (3) dt.11-09-2012 not made out. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned SDJM, Pupri, Sitamarhi in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 102 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.