Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18476 of 2012 ====================================================== Bishambhar Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in connection with Tajpur (Pusa) P.S. Case No. 229 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial magistrate, Samastipur. It is alleged against the petitioner that he used to torture the victim and subsequently killed her and disposed off the dead body. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim had illicit relationship with her brother-in-law (Bahnoi) and when her husband objected, she committed suicide. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. Amrendra/- (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.