Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35138 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35138 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Das @ Sunil Ravidas .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The complaint was filed in 2006 alleging that the complainant’s daughter was killed after one year of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. Subsequently, the complainant filed an application for withdrawal of the complaint when present FIR was lodged on 17.8.2011. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner in case the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Chandan (Anandpur O.P.) P.S. Case no. 54 of 2011 pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Banka. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35138 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.