Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27526 of 2012 ====================================================== Satendra Tiwary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-08-2012 Petitioner being father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after four years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that from the First Information Report, it is apparent that the victim’s conditions deteriorated due to the fast she was observing on the eve of Chhat festival when the informant found the victim in the hospital and during treatment she died. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Satendra Tiwary, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27526 of 2012 (2) dt.06-08-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Uphara P.S. Case No. 41 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.