Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1694 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Ashraf Ali @ Md. Asraf Ansari @ Md. Ashraf Ansari S/O Md. Iliyas Ansari Resident Of Villge Mirapur, P.S. Sakra, District Muzaffarpur. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 02/ 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The bail prayer of the petitioner has been renewed in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Earlier rejection order dated14.3.2011 contained in Annexure-1 reflects that considering the merit of the case the prayer for bail was rejected since petitioner is husband. This Court finds no ground for revising the earlier order of this Court, hence the application for bail is rejected. However, it is expected from the learned court below to expedite the trial and conclude the same within a period of one year. If the trial will not be concluded within a period of one year, the petitioner will be at liberty to renew his prayer for bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1694 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2/2 in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 87 of 2007 pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge –IXth, Muzaffarpur. Let the order 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.