Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24625 of 2012 (3) dt.23-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24625 of 2012 ====================================================== Santosh Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 23.08.2012 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 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act. According to the prosecution case itself, the present case was registered after one and half months of the death of the deceased and furthermore, para 1 of the case diary reveals that Investigating officer started investigation at the direction of the superior officer and after that he recorded the statement of the informant of the present case. Learned counsel for the petitioner drew my attention towards annexure 2 to this petition and submitted that later on, informant filed a petition before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa disclosing this fact that his daughter died of her natural death. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Santosh 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in Saharsa Sadar P.S. Case no. 381/2011. 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.