Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5922 of 2012 (3) dt.07-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5922 of 2012 ====================================================== Bimal Mandal @ Bimal Prasad Mandal & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 07.03.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Admittedly, petitioner no.1 is father-in-law whereas petitioner no.2 is younger brother-in-law of the deceased and the aforesaid petitioners are languishing in jail custody in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act. Para 37 of the case diary reflects that no external injury was found on the person of the deceased and cause of death was suspected to be a case of poisoning. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners, Bimal Mandal @ Bimal Prasad Mandal and Sanjeev Kumar @ Sanjeev Kr. Mandal @ Sanjeev Mandal, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in Dandkhora P.S. Case no. 148/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.