Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40601 of 2012 ====================================================== Parshuram Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 22-11-2012 Petitioner’s earlier bail application was disposed of as withdrawn on 22.11.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 32901 of 2011. The present anticipatory application has been placed before this Court in view of the administrative order of Hon’ble the Chief Justice dated 06.11.2012 and the order of the Co- ordinate Bench dated 10.10.2012. Petitioner being father 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 the marriage. The prayer for anticipatory bail has been renewed on the ground that earlier counsel for the petitioner had no instruction that husband of the victim is in custody and Title Suit No. 656 of 2010 is pending between the husband of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40601 of 2012 (3) dt.22-11-2012 2 / 2 2 the victim and the rest of the family members. This Court is not inclined to take a different view, but considering the contentions, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Bikramganj P.S. Case No. 55 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.