Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8977 of 2012 ====================================================== Baijnath Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Petitioner being father of the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the complainant after one year of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that marriage was performed in 11.03.2007. It is further submitted that on 13.09.2008 the husband filed informatory petition that daughter of the complainant went missing from Ludhiyana and thereafter the present complaint was filed on 22.09.2008 and the death still has not been ascertained. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Baijnath Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8977 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Rosera at Samastipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 951 of 2008, Trial No. 2125 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.