Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35343 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35343 of 2012 ====================================================== Parmanu Jha @ Parmanu Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being 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 daughter of the informant after five year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on 12.03.2012 a sanaha entry was made at the behest of the petitioner with regard to the death of the victim when the petitioner employed in U.P. and was not present at the place of occurrence. It is further submitted that the several witnesses have suggested that the victim committed suicide. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35343 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 Moroever, the death has taken place after five years of the marriage when the accusation of demand of dowry and torture were made. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to this petitioner in connection with Singhia P.S. Case No. 24 of 2012 pending in the court of learned ACJM, Rosera. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.