Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5794 of 2012 (2) dt.13-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5794 of 2012 ====================================================== Balram Singh, S/O-Late Nandkeshwar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 2 13-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is languishing in jail custody in a case registered under [STATUTE] and ¾ of Dowry Prohibition Act. According to prosecution case itself, the alleged occurrence took place on 04.07.2011 whereas the complaint was filed on 22.07.2011. Moreover, the allegation of demand is against husband who admittedly, gave information about the ill condition of the deceased to the informant of the present case. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5794 of 2012 (2) dt.13-02-2012 Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Kouwakole (Rupau) P.S. Case No. 121 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.