Dowry death: *Bodily injury relating to forensic medicine
This feature also contains law for medical students and doctors as forensic medicine. Dowry death: *Bodily injury caused by husband or relative which lead to death comes under dowry death and punished under IPC 304 B. *IPC section 304 B States whenever any death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs otherwise done 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 or in connection with,any demand for body such death shall be called "dowry death" and search 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 and it may extend to life time imprisonment. Cruel behaviour towards wife by husband or his relatives punished by IPC 498 A. IPC Section 498 a states that whoever being hu...