Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40859 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Ranjit Singh S/O Pancham Singh R/O Village - Ibrahimpur, P.S. Aurangabad ( M ), District – Aurangabad .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 20-07-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] . The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the marriage solemnized in the year 1999 and the occurrence is of the order 2011. It has, further, been contended that the son of the deceased is more than eights years old and the two daughters are 5 and 6 years old. Further, there is no statement of the informant stating about the demand. It is stated that the deceased died of hepatitis “B” disease, but, there is allegation that the deceased was done to death by strangulation. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no witness to the occurrence and the case does not fall under the ambit of [STATUTE] as the marriage solemnized more than seven years earlier and there is no demand of dowry. The learned counsel for the State, however, submits that the petitioner neither informed the naiher people nor any postmortem was conducted. The petitioner is in jail since 25.06.2011. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioner, above named, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000 (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Aurangabad (M) P.S. Case No. 34 of 2011 to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, subject to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40859 of 2011 (3) dt.20-07-2012 2/2 condition that the petitioner shall appear in Court on each and every date, fixed in the case and any absence, on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable ground to the satisfaction of the Court below, shall be a ground of cancellation of bail of the petitioner by the lower Court itself. 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.