Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48540 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.48540 of 2012 ====================================================== Narendra Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Akhileshwar Prasad Singh, Sr. Advocate For the State : Mr. Matloob Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-12-2012 Heard Mr. Akhileshwar Prasad singh, learned senior counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Matloob Prasad, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner seeks grant of regular bail in connection with Atri P.S. case No. 63 of 2011 registered for the alleged offences under [STATUTE] . As per the allegation in the First Information Report the petitioner who is the husband of the deceased administered poison to the deceased leading to her death and accordingly, the case under [STATUTE] was instituted by the father of the deceased, Raghunandan Prasad Sharma. However, from the order of the learned Additional Sessions Judge IVth, Gaya dated 11.10.2012 by which the petitioner’s regular bail application had been rejected, it appears that the Senior Superintendent of Police, Gaya has found the case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48540 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 to be true under [STATUTE] . Learned Senior Counsel has also drawn my attention to Annexures 2 and 3 of this application in order to contend that the informant has subsequently retracted from his statement on the basis of which the First Information Report was instituted. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner Narendra Singh be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Atri P.S. case No. 63 of 2011. Arun Kumar/- (Chakradhari Sharan Singh, 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.