Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44402 of 2011 ====================================================== Ramesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 02.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the victim was killed for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand after three years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim was taken to the hospital when she was suffering from acute diarrhoea and during investigation the witnesses have admitted that medical assistance was given and the informant was informed about illness. Considering the fact that petitioner is the husband, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner for the present in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 333 of 2010 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44402 of 2011 (3) dt.07-03-2012 2/2 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. DKS/ (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.