Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40630 of 2012 ====================================================== Meghnath Pandit .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-11-2012 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 Sections 304(B) and 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted that the specific accusation is not against this petitioner when as per own admission of the informant in the opening lines of the F.I.R. that the marriage was performed eight years prior to occurrence hence the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] . and during investigation case was found true under [STATUTE] . Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40630 of 2012 (2) dt.22-11-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Barahara P.S. Case No. 105 of 2012(G.R. No. 1264 of 2012) on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bhojpur at Arrah, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.