Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8047 of 2012 ====================================================== Nagina Chaudhary S/O Mahesh Chaudhary Resident Of Mohalla Mansur Nagar, Chhoti Pahari, Police Station Sohsarai, District Nalanda. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar. .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Raj Kishore Prasad For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Raj Ballabh Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 5 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner, who is in custody since 15.6.2011, is facing trial under [STATUTE] . Submission is of false implication and it appears from the First Information Report itself that in simple family feud deceased herself committed suicide of course within two years of her marriage but there was no question of any sort of demand. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, the petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with to sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sessions Judge, Nalanda at Biharsharief, in S.Tr. no. 560 of 2011 arising out of Sohsarai P.S. Case no. 43 of 2011, with the condition that the petitioner shall remain present before the court below on each and every date till 2 disposal of the case. In the event of failure to attend the court on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable explanation, the privilege granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. A.Ahmad/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.