Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12508 of 2012 (3) dt.11-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12508 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Manish Kumar @ Manish Kunwar S/O Chandrachur Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 11-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Earlier the prayer for bail of the petitioner was rejected by this Court vide order dated 23.09.2011 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 25547 of 2011. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is being prosecuted under [STATUTE] . The learned trial court has reported that the trial of the petitioner has already commenced. In view of the aforesaid report of learned trial court, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail and accordingly, his prayer for bail in connection with Matihani P.S. Case No. 104 of 2010 is, again, rejected. However, learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12508 of 2012 (3) dt.11-05-2012 Begusarai has reported that the case of the petitioner has already been committed to the court of Sessions and pending before Additional Sessions Judge-V, Begusarai as Sessions Trial No. 857 of 2011 in which charge was framed on 23.11.2011 and the case is pending for prosecution evidence. In the aforesaid circumstance, learned Additional Sessions Judge-V, Begusarai is directed to expedite the trial of the petitioner and try to conclude the same as early as possible preferably within nine months from the date of receipt of this order. It is made clear that if the trial of the petitioner is not concluded within the above stated period, the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. 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.