Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16911 of 2011 (6) dt.10-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16911 of 2011 ====================================================== Nand Kishore Yadav .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 06/ 10.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 22.1.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . As per prosecution case, marriage of the deceased had taken place in the year 2003 whereas she died in the year 2010 in course of her treatment. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the deceased was issueless lady and, as a matter of fact, she took some medicine which reacted causing death of the deceased. It is further contended by him that in post mortem examination neither any external nor internal injury was found on the person of the deceased and her cause of death could not be ascertained as yet. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Nand Kishore Yadav, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Sessions Judge II, Banka in Sessions trial no.323/2011 arising out of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16911 of 2011 (6) dt.10-02-2012 Katoria P.S. Case no. 165/2010. 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.