Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35099 of 2011 (3) dt.21-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35099 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Dharmendra Ram @ Dharmendra Kumar Ram S/O Ramsagar Ram R/O Village - Miyan Pakri, Police Station - Kanti, District - Muzaffarpur .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Prabhakar Jha, Adv. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Narsing Tanti, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] and 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The marriage has been solemnized in May, 2004, and the cause of the death of the victim-deceased has been found by strangulation. The petitioner is the husband. However the dead body was recovered from the burning ghat while being disposed off and, hence, the accused persons tried to dispose off the body without informing the public authority, like police, post mortem examination and naiher people. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. However, the petitioner is in jail since 20.09.2010, hence, if the trial is not concluded within nine months then the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. 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.