Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44826 of 2011 ====================================================== Bikau Mandal, S/o Mishri Lal Mandal, Village- Godhanpur, P.S. Jhanjharpur, District-Medhubani .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 03. 29-02-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Jhanjharpur P.S. Case No. 83 of 2011 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegation of torture of the deceased for dowry is apparently not correct by reason of the marriage having taken place 10 years back. He further, with reference to the statement of the independent witnesses recorded at paragraph 9 to 11 of the case diary, submits that the petitioner was working in Chennai and was not present at the place of occurrence. Learned counsel also relying upon the statement of the son of the deceased recorded at paragraph-76 of the case diary, submits that he has stated that his mother consumed poison and informed about the same to his grandmother. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44826 of 2011 (3) dt.29-02-2012 2 Considering the submission and the materials on record, let the petitioner Bikau Mandal 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhanjharpur, District-Madhubani in connection with Jhanjharpur P.S. Case No. 83 of 2011. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.