Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7563 of 2012 ====================================================== Sudhir Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 14-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant has not supported the prosecution case as a result of which the other accused persons have been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 136 of 2009. In view of this Court, that can be a good ground for consideration of regular bail. Let the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Kurhani P.S. Case No. 22 of 2008 pending in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7563 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2/2 court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur when the learned court below will consider the prayer for regular bail of the petitioner taking into consideration that the FIR was lodged after inordinate delay and other accused persons have been acquitted. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost 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.