Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5280 of 2012 ====================================================== Nagmani Ram @ Nagmuni Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-02-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to necessary correction. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is languishing in custody since 27.09.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is that the marriage was performed 10-12 years prior to the occurrence when there were two children out of wedlock and the victim was killed and subsequently the dead body was disposed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after investigation, the charge sheet under Section 306 of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5280 of 2012 (2) dt.24-02-2012 2 / 2 2 IPC has been submitted. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned I/C Sessions Judge, Nalanda in connection with S. Tr. No. 17 of 2012 arising out of Bind P.S. Case No. 64 of 2011. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar 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.