Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6183 of 2012 ====================================================== Pundeo Thakur , son of Babu Ram Thakur resident of village- Zorebera, P.S. Fenhara, District- East Champaran. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AMARESH KUMAR LAL ORAL ORDER 2 08-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Fenhara P. S. Case No. 36 of 2010 for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . It is submitted that the petitioner is the husband of the deceased. He has not been named in the FIR. It has been alleged that the accused named in the FIR were threatening the deceased Punam Devi for the fulfillment of demand of dowry. It is submitted that the petitioner had gone out for his livelihood and in his absence his wife suffering from diarrhea died in the way to hospital. Later on, he came to know that after death the informant also participated in her funeral. When the informant came to know that the case had been falsely lodged, he filed a petition that due to ill information he lodged the aforesaid case. He has further submitted that some accused have Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6183 of 2012 (2) dt.08-02-2012 2 been granted anticipatory bail by a bench of this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 12749 of 2011. Learned counsel for the State could not controvert the contention of the petitioner while opposing his prayer. Considering the facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of six weeks, the above named petitioner will be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned sub- divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Fenhara P. S. Case No. 36 of 2010, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr. P.C and with further condition that (i) The petitioner will not indulge himself in any similar or other offence. (ii) He will be well represented on each and every date and if he fails to do so on two consecutive dates, his bail bond will be liable to be cancelled by the court concerned. Kanchan/- (Amaresh Kumar Lal, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 201

Statute Text:
Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code. Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information touching it to screen the offender, If a capital offence. Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, causes any evidence of the commission of that offence to disappear, with the intention of screening the offender from legal punishment, or with that intention gives any information respecting the offence which he knows or believes to be false; if a capital offence — shall, if the offence which he knows or believes to have been committed is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; if punishable with imprisonment for life — and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; if punishable with less than ten years imprisonment — and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for any term not extending to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of the imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both.