Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30105 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Naresh Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 24-08-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make correction in the prayer portion. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after four years of the marriage by poisoning. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is not specific against this petitioner. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30105 of 2012 (2) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Manjhagarh P.S. Case No. 80 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be accepted on filing affidavit that he will regularly cooperate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O. concerned by the learned court below. The non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.