Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1362 of 2012 ====================================================== Keshwar Sah .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 17-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the brother-in-law of the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of demand of dowry and torture. It is alleged against the petitioner that it was this petitioner who informed the informant about the death of the victim hence his connivance was suspected. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during the investigation the accusation was found false against the petitioner and on that basis the husband has been granted bail and the investigation is still pending against the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Valmikinagar P.S. Case No. 43 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.