Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33545 of 2012 ====================================================== Niranjan Singh @ Ghutar Singh, Son of Bijay Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 21-11-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, is one of the named accused in this case being husband of deceased daughter of the informant, who died under unnatural circumstances within three years of her marriage after suffering a lot for some sort of demands. Having regard to the facts and circumstances emerging during investigation including postmortem report of the deceased, prayer for regular bail of the above named petitioner in connection with Mokama P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh, District – Patna, is hereby, refused. Simultaneously, courts below are directed to proceed expeditiously with the trial and avoid undue delay and adjournments. Praveen-II/- (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.