Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39000 of 2012 ====================================================== Amar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after ten years of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the informant is none else than the father of the victim who lodged complaint case no. 3122 of 2010 on 4.10.2010 at Chapra where it was alleged that his daughter died due to burn injuries. When the said complaint was dismissed on 5.10.2010 then the present case has been lodged on 18.6.2011 where it is stated by the informant that his daughter went missing. It is further submitted that as per own admission of the informant the marriage took place in 2000 and the doctor who examined the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39000 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 victim has given statement as contained in Annexure 2 that the victim admitted that burn injury was caused due to bursting of stove. Considering the inconsistent stand of the informant, delayed lodging of the case and the admission of the informant that marriage was performed in 2000, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Saran at Chapra in connection with Daudpur P.S. Case No. 159 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.