Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1810 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dhrub Singh @ Dhrub Kumar Singh S/O Mahendra Singh Resident Of Village Dalan, Haripur, P.S. Alouli, District Khagaria. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 02/ 01-02-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make correction in the prayer portion. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 28.07.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The informant’s wife was found hanging when the informant lodged the case three days after the occurrence while naming two persons excluding the petitioner. In the protest also the petitioner was not named. Subsequently, during investigation it has come that the petitioner participated in disposal of the dead body. Considering the same, the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail which gets reflected from Annexure-1. Since he could not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1810 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2/2 executed bail bond within the stipulated time, his period for surrender was not extended by this Court. Considering the fact that the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail on merits, let the petitioner namely Dhrub Singh @ Dhrub Kumar Singh, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge II, Khagaria in connection with Sessions Case No. 486 of 2011 arising out of Alauli P.S. Case No. 157 of 2007. DKS/ (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.