Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21399 of 2012 (4) dt.12-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21399 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dheko Yadav @ Dheku Yadav S/O Chote Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 4 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 21.11.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . There is allegation against the petitioner that he wanted to establish physical relation with deceased but when deceased was not agreed, she was killed by the petitioner and her dead body was disposed of by the petitioner along with other accused in hurried manner. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that in course of trial, the parents of the deceased have not supported the prosecution story and moreover, none has seen the actual killing of the deceased. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21399 of 2012 (4) dt.12-10-2012 well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Naugachia, Bhagalpur in connection with Sessions Trial No. 303 of 2012 arising out of Gopalpur (Rangra) P.S. Case No. 408 of 2011. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.