Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27493 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27493 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramnath Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 12.09.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 30.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act. Marriage of the petitioner had taken place with the deceased in the year 2009 but within one year of the marriage deceased died in other than normal circumstance. There is allegation against the petitioner that he used to torture the deceased on account of non- fulfillment of illegal demand of dowry. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that deceased died of snake biting and the aforesaid fact was supported by the witnesses in course of investigation. On the other hand, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor points out that dead body of the deceased was disposed off by the petitioner and his associates without giving any proper information to the natal people of the deceased. So, the aforesaid circumstance clearly indicates the involvement of the petitioner in the alleged crime. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, I am not inclined to release the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27493 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 on bail an accordingly, his prayer for bail in Khanpur P.S. Case no. 56/2010 pending in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur is, hereby, rejected. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.