Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25509 of 2012 (3) dt.27-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25509 of 2012 ====================================================== Bikas Yadav son of Rajendra Roy resident of Village-Bucheya, P.S.- Sidhwalia, District-Gopalganj. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.25947 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamlawati Devi @ Pamwati Devi @ Ramawati Devi W/O Rajendra Roy Resident Of Village- Bucheya, P.S.- Sidhwalia, District- Gopalganj. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 27-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioners, who are languishing in custody since 07.03.2012, seek bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] , in this case instituted against unknown on recovery of dead body of a female. Petitioners’ name emerged in investigation being brother-in-law and mother-in-law of the deceased who not only suffered for certain demands but dead body after committing brutal murder was thrown at a different place from where it was recovered and could be identified only Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25509 of 2012 (3) dt.27-08-2012 after about 20 days. Submission is of false implication without any material but no explanation for maintaining silence for such a long period about the deceased if at all missing from the house has been given. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, for the present, prayer for regular bail of the petitioners in connection with Baikunthpur P.S. Case No. 24 of 2012, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate Gopalganj, is hereby refused. Simultaneously, courts below are directed to proceed expeditiously with the trial and avoid undue delay and adjournments. Safik/- (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.