Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12104 of 2012 (3) dt.20-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12104 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Churaman Yadav S/O Tilak Yadav Resident Of Village- Gani Pipra, Police Station- Fatehpur, District- Gaya. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case instituted for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The allegation made in the first information report is that the victim was killed in her matrimonial home and a false information of natural death was given to her family members. When her family members arrived, the house was found locked. They informed the police. The police recovered the dead body from burning Ghat. The dead body of the deceased was sent for postmortem examination. The postmortem examination confirmed the death to be homicidal one. Considering the nature of allegation and the relationship of the petitioner with the deceased, I am not inclined to grant bail. The prayer for bail is, accordingly, dismissed. The learned concerned Magistrate is directed to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12104 of 2012 (3) dt.20-04-2012 immediately commit the case to the court of sessions for trial. Md.S./- (Ashwani 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.