Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4102 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sunil Yadav S/O Ganhu Yadav R/O Village- Semariya, P.S.- Kateya, District- Gopalganj .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the younger brother of the husband is languishing in custody since 08.12.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the victim for non- fulfillment of dowry demand after seven years of the marriage. The own admission of the informant that the marriage was performed seven years prior to the occurrence which clouds the accusation against the entire in-laws family. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Sunil Yadav, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4102 of 2012 (2) dt.10-02-2012 2/2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Kateya P.S. Case No. 176 of 2011. 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.