Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29299 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29299 of 2012 ====================================================== Narad Sahni S/O Saryug Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 2 31-08-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in para-1 of the petition. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody since 07.05.2012, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] , is one of the named accused in this case being husband of deceased daughter of the informant who, after suffering from certain demands during ten years of her marriage and blessed with three children, died under unnatural circumstances and dead body too was disposed off. Earlier, petitioner had threatened to get her killed if the informant continued demanding the money advance for purchasing of some land. Submission is of false implication and deceased died due to some illness being aware of real facts the informant has already filed an application before the court below exonerating the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29299 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 petitioner and others from the charges levelled against the petitioner which is on record of the court below. If it is so, and the informant appearing before the court below on due verification supports filing of the petition, contents therein, after fully understanding the consequences, with his free will and consent without any coercion and also stood as one of the bailors , let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar in connection with Sheohar P.S. Case No. 44 of 2012, subject to condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case. In the event of failure on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable explanation, the privilege granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Md. Ibrarul/- (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.