Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48729 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.48729 of 2012 ====================================================== 1 Nand Kishore Singh son of late Shatrughan Singh. 2 Kaushal Kishore Singh, Son of Late Shatrughan Singh. 3 Tej Bihari Singh @ Tej Bahadur Singh, son of late Shatrughan Singh, all are resident of village- Enai ( Barahampur) , P.S- Bhagwan Bazar, District- Saran ( Chapra) .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s Mr. Arun Kumar Rai For the State : Mr. C. Jawahar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-12-2012 Heard Mr. Arun Kumar Rai, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. C. Jawahar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioners seek grant of regular bail in connection with Bhagwan Bazar P.S.case No. 119 of 2002 registered under [STATUTE] . It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that petitioner no. 1 is the husband of the deceased whereas petitioner nos. 2 and 3 are brother-in laws (Dewar) of the deceased, who died after seven years of her marriage. The allegation against petitioners in the F.I.R is that there was demand of dowry and torture. However from Annexures 2 and 3 of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48729 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 application it appears that the police after completing the investigation submitted charge sheet under Section 306/201/34 of the Indian Penal code against these petitioners and his father. Accordingly cognizance has been taken against them by the learned Judicial Magistrate. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, namely, Nand Kishore Singh, Kaushal Kishore Singh and Tej Bihari Singh @ Tej Bahadur Singh be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- ( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Shri Niraj Kishoe, 1st Class Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Bhagwan Bazar P.S.Case No. 119 of 2002, subject to the conditions that the petitioners shall co-operate in course of trial and in any default on their part will lead to cancellation of their bonds. Namita/- (Chakradhari Sharan Singh, 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.