Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.199 of 2012 ====================================================== Panchratan Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being father of the husband of the victim is languishing in jail since 17.8.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within slightly over one year of the marriage by causing fire arm injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that it was this petitioner, who informed the informant side and while he was taking the victim to the hospital he was arrested. More over, since the son of the petitioner performed court marriage with another girl, hence, but the petitioner cannot be held responsible for that. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the rifle was in the name of the petitioner when the empty Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.199 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 cartridges were recovered from the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the rifle has not bee sent for ballistic examination. Considering the nature of accusation, this court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner in Rajpur P.S. Case no. 83 of 2011. Prayer for bail is rejected. However, the petitioner will be at liberty to renew his prayer for bail after remaining in custody for one year. 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.