Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30928 of 2012 ====================================================== Birju Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 21-09-2012 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 five years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory to the petitioner in connection with Telhara P.S. Case No. 88 of 2011 pending in the court of learned ACJM, Hilsa (Nalanda). Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.