Case Facts:
1/1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12709 of 2012 ====================================================== Gudiya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the second wife of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in Rajaun P.S. Case No. 83 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka. The accusation is of administering poison to the victim. It appears that earlier also the victim lodged the police case and complaint case against the husband and this petitioner. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the same is rejected. Amrendra/- (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.