Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17048 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17048 of 2012 ====================================================== Laxmi Prasad @ Gorakh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after eight months of the marriage. It is submitted that the petitioner and the victim who were residing at Banglore where the victim died due to illness. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against this petitioner, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Hilsa P.S. Case no. 391 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa (Nalanda). Prayer of the petitioner for anticipatory bail is rejected. 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.