Section 80 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, essentially retains the core principles of Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) regarding dowry deaths but refines the legal framework slightly. It maintains that a woman's death, caused by burns, bodily injury, or occurring under abnormal circumstances within seven years of marriage, along with evidence of dowry-related cruelty or harassment, constitutes a dowry death. The punishment remains a minimum of seven years imprisonment, extendable to life imprisonment.