Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37430 of 2012 ====================================================== Sikandar Rai S/o Late Kishun Rai Resident of Village- Ajampur Shankarganj, Police Station- Barari, District- Katihar, at present resident of Mohalla- Saubhagya Sharma Path, Police Station- Rupaspur, District- Patna .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 03. 17-10-2012 Heard Mr. Bashistha Narayan Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Rupaspur P.S. Case No. 26 of 2010 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The death having occurred in unnatural circumstance and the petitioner being the husband of the deceased, the prayer of the petitioner was rejected by order dated 24.02.2012 passed in Criminal Misc. No. 43135 of 2011 and has been renewed in the present application. A report was called for from the trial court as regarding the stage of trial which has since been received and which demonstrates that the trial is at the stage of examination of prosecution witnesses. In that view of the matter, no reason for indulgence is called Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37430 of 2012 (3) dt.17-10-2012 2 for. The application is dismissed. Considering the report of the learned court below, the petitioner may renew his prayer if the trial is not concluded within a period of one year from today. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.