Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28945 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ved Prakash Tiwary @ Babul Tiwari S/O Late Atal Bihari Tiwary R/O Village- Chotaki Nanijor, P.S.- Nanijor Brahampur, District- Buxar, At Present Mohalla- Tari Mohalla, P.S.- Ara Nagar, Dist.- Bhojpur .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 13-09-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] . There is allegation of demand of rupees two lakhs and subjecting cruelty and it is alleged that the informant got information that his daughter got injury by fire and it was informed that she was taken to Arrah Hospital. However, when he enquired from Arrah Hospital, then, it was learnt that she has been sent to Patna, but, in Patna also she could not be found and it is alleged that she has been done to death by setting on fire and the dead body disposed off. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the deceased burnt while cooking food. However, neither the information about death of the deceased was given to the naiher people nor they have been allowed to participate in the funeral nor the public authority, like police, was informed nor the post mortem as conducted to ascertain the cause of death. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. The trial may be expedited. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.