Penal Code, 1860–Sec. 304-B–Essential ingredients of offence –
(i) the death of woman must have been caused in unnatural circumstances,
(ii) the death should have occurred within seven years of marriage,
(iii) soon before her death, the woman must have been subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or his relatives and such cruelty or harassment must be for or in connection with the demand for dowry, and such cruelty or harassment is shown to have been meted out to the woman soon before her death.
