Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1358 of 2012 ====================================================== Sushil Sah S/O Ram Govind Sah @ Govind Sah R/O Village - Banwaripur, P.S. Bhagwanpur, District - Begusarai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 02/ 30-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 26.07.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] & 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the victim for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that after investigation police submitted charge-sheet under [STATUTE] and the informant has retracted from his earlier version and filed petition before the learned court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Sushil Sah, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1358 of 2012 (2) dt.30-01-2012 2/2 of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 92 of 2011. DKS/ (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.