Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12669 of 2012 (3) dt.27-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12669 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Binod Sah S/O Narayan Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 27-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Although, informant and some witnesses supported the prosecution case in course of investigation and the post- mortem report reveals that cause of death of the deceased was asphyxia but submission on behalf of the petitioner is that informant has filed compromise petition before the learned court below accepting this fact that he lodged the present case under misconception and now he does not want to proceed with the case. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is languishing in jail custody since 14.11.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . No doubt, the death of the deceased was other than normal circumstances but taking into consideration the retracted version of the informant, I think it proper to release the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12669 of 2012 (3) dt.27-06-2012 on bail and, accordingly, petitioner is 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani in connection with Phulparas P.S. Case No. 66 of 2011. SHAHZAD/- (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.