Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3766 of 2012 ====================================================== Sonalal Rai, Son of Ram Sewal Rai, Resident of Village-Parsa, Police Station-Ishuapur, District-Saran at Chapra. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA) 2 25-01-2012 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is accused of the case registered under [STATUTE] . The informant Dhrupdeo Rai has married his daughter Guddi Kumari with Ranjay Rai on 15.06.2010. The informant received information that Guddi Kumari has been killed and her dead body has been made to disappear. Submission is that the petitioner is father-in-law of the deceased and other accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail. The husband of the deceased is already in custody. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3766 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-201 2/22 the above named petitioner is directed to 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate/court concerned, Saran at Chapra in connection with Ishuapur P.S. Case No. 45 of 2011. KKSINHA/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, 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.