Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42054 of 2012 (3) dt.06-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42054 of 2012 ====================================================== Upendra Singh S/O Parshuram Singh R/O Village - Dhawa, P.S. Bikramganj, Distt. – Rohtas. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-12-2012 Earlier, petitioner’s application for anticipatory bail was permitted to be withdrawn on 22.11.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 30146 of 2011 by an order of a co-ordinate Bench. Now, prayer has been renewed when the matter has been placed before this Court in view of the order of the co-ordinate Bench dated 22.11.2011 and the administrative order of Hon’ble the Chief justice dated 24.11.2012. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the elder brother of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after one year of marriage. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42054 of 2012 (3) dt.06-12-2012 The prayer for anticipatory bail has been renewed on the ground that earlier learned counsel for the petitioner has no instruction that the husband of the victim is in custody and Title Suit No. 656 of 2010 is pending between the husband and the petitioner’s side which suggests that the petitioner was separate from the husband of the victim. This Court is not inclined to take a different view, but considering the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Bikramganj P.S. Case No. 55 of 2011, pending in the court of the learned S.D.J.M., Bikramganj, Rohtas. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.