Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36397 of 2011 (3) dt.03-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36397 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Dilip Yadav, S/o Uttim Lal Yadav, R/o Vill- Khurasan, P.S- Salkhua Distt- Saharsa. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Diwakar Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Navin Kumar Pandey, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN) 3 03-02-2012 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is in custody in connecting with Salkhua P.S.Case No.70 of 2008 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] and section 3/4 of the Dowry prohibition Act. Considering the circumstances that the death took place within five years of marriage and that the case having been registered in 2008, the surrender of this petitioner came only on 14.7.2011 as also the fact that the petitioner happens to be the husband and the death yet remains a mystery, I am not inclined to allow the prayer of the petitioner and the same is refused. The application is dismissed. ahk/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.