Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32857 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Pukar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-09-2012 Petitioner being father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accusation is not specific against the petitioner when husband of the victim has already surrendered and informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Ram Pukar Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32857 of 2012 (2) dt.10-09-2012 2 / 2 2 from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Barh in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 70 of 2008. Shageer/- (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.