Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8845 of 2012 (3) dt.01-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8845 of 2012 ====================================================== Vinay Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 01.05.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 12.7.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It would appear from perusal of the first information report that the deceased died within one and half years of her marriage in other than natural circumstance and petitioner as well as other accused cremated her dead body without giving any proper information to the informant as well as his other family members. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, his prayer for bail in connection with Pair P.S. Case no. 09/2010 corresponding to Trial no. 4590/2011 pending in the court of Sri Mithilesh Kumar, Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur is, hereby, rejected, at least, at this stage. 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.