Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8734 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramprit Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 20.1.2012 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that during investigation, it has come that the victim died at Banglore where she was residing with her husband and for the occurrence of 19.9.2011, the complaint was filed on 22.9.2011, which came to be registered as police case on 1.12.2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M. Hilsa, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8734 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Nalanda in Hilsa P.S. Case No.391 of 2011. 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.