Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5681 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Vishwakarma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the brother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim after two years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim committed suicide by jumping in front of running train. It is further submitted that other accused Rekha Devi has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 37863 of 2011. Considering the fact that the thrust of the accusation is against the husband, let the above named petitioner, be released Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5681 of 2012 (2) dt.01-03-2012 2 / 2 2 on anticipatory bail, in the event arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Fatehpur P.S. Case No. 154 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.