Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28945 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ved Prakash Tiwary @ Babul Tiwari S/O Late Atal Bihari Tiwary R/O Village- Chotaki Nanijor, P.S.- Nanijor Brahampur, District- Buxar, At Present Mohalla- Tari Mohalla, P.S.- Ara Nagar, Dist.- Bhojpur .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 13-09-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] . There is allegation of demand of rupees two lakhs and subjecting cruelty and it is alleged that the informant got information that his daughter got injury by fire and it was informed that she was taken to Arrah Hospital. However, when he enquired from Arrah Hospital, then, it was learnt that she has been sent to Patna, but, in Patna also she could not be found and it is alleged that she has been done to death by setting on fire and the dead body disposed off. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the deceased burnt while cooking food. However, neither the information about death of the deceased was given to the naiher people nor they have been allowed to participate in the funeral nor the public authority, like police, was informed nor the post mortem as conducted to ascertain the cause of death. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. The trial may be expedited. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.