Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34473 of 2011 (4) dt.07-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34473 of 2011 ====================================================== Ravindra Thakur, S/O-Jagat Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 4 07-02-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in prayer portion of his application within course of the day. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 01.08.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] but after investigation, police submitted charge-sheet under [STATUTE] . No doubt, petitioner is husband of the deceased but in course of investigation, it came to light that petitioner used to assault the deceased in drunken state which prompted the deceased to commit suicide. 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34473 of 2011 (4) dt.07-02-2012 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Sessions Judge-II, Muzaffarpur in connection with Sessions Trial No. 606 of 2011 arising out of Baruraj P.S. Case No. 50 of 2009. 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.