Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30850 of 2012 (3) dt.14-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30850 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 14-12-2012 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 four years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that the victim died due to diarrhoea when the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version and filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner keeping in view of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30850 of 2012 (3) dt.14-12-2012 retracted version of the informant, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Lakhisarai (Kabaiya O.P.) P.S. Case No. 132 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Lakhisarai. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be 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.