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"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 :
Answer: B
The punishment is imprisonment for a term not less than seven years, which may extend to imprisonment for life.
The quoted definition is Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code, added in 1986. Sub-section (2) fixes this punishment: a minimum of seven years, and up to life imprisonment. The same offence and punishment are carried into Section 80 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which replaced the IPC later in 2024.
Life imprisonment is only the upper limit, not a fixed sentence. Fourteen years is not the term the section prescribes. The death penalty is not provided for dowry death.
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