Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35851 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-09-2012 Petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the complainant after four years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that victim died due to illness at Luckhnow. The medical prescriptions and death certificate issued by the hospital has been brought on record as Annexure- 2 and 3 which reflects that the death was natural. It is further submitted that complainant has admitted in the complaint petition that he came to know about the occurrence on 02.07.2010 but the complaint was filed on 07.07.2010. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35851 of 2012 (3) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Pramod Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Complaint Case No. 1895 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.