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IPCIndian Penal Code, 1860

Section 304BDowry death

BNS equivalent: BNS Section 80
Where the death of a woman is caused by burns or bodily injury within seven years of marriage and she was subjected to cruelty for dowry, it is a dowry death, punishable with imprisonment of not less than seven years up to life.

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