Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43045 of 2011 (3) dt.31-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43045 of 2011 ====================================================== Arvind Chourasia @ (Mahto), SON OF Bisundeo Mahto. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA) 3 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 23.08.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . According to prosecution case itself, the marriage of petitioner had taken place with deceased in the year 1994 but after some time of the aforesaid marriage the relation between petitioner and deceased became strained and deceased filed maintenance case as well as other cases against the petitioner. Furthermore, in course of investigation when Dy. S.P. recorded the statement of witnesses, it came to light that deceased was not residing with the petitioner rather she was residing in another village. Moreover, none has seen the actual killing of the deceased. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43045 of 2011 (3) dt.31-01-2012 directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Sarai Ranjan P.S. Case No. 63 of 2011. Md. Ibrarul/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.