Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3518 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bindeshwar Pd. Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Madhuri Lata, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The FIR has been lodged by the daughter of the deceased. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the victim died on 1.4.2010 whereas the complaint was lodged on 31.7.2010. Considering the fact that the petitioner is the husband of the deceased, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner in Madanpur P.S. Case no. 10 of 2011 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3518 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 pending in the court of C.J.M. Aurangabad. This application is accordingly dismissed. Anil/- (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.