Case Facts:
1/ 2 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.645 of 2012 ====================================================== Siddique Ansari @ Sadique Ansari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 16-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 22.06.2011 in connection with Dumariya P.S. Case No. 30 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati (Gaya). The prosecution case is that the informant came to know that his maternal brother Abdullah Ansari has been killed by the petitioner and his sons when he went to see the dead body of the deceased in the house of this petitioner. It is alleged that since the daughter of the petitioner was kidnapped by the deceased being a married person hence as a retaliatory measure the deceased was killed. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner that admittedly the informant is not the eye-witness to the occurrence nor any witnesses claimed to have seen the occurrence Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.645 of 2012 (3) dt.16-03-2012 2/ 2 and due the fact that the petitioner’s daughter was kidnapped by the deceased, the strong suspicion has been raised. It is further submitted that the accusation has been levelled against three accused persons where only two injuries have been found. Considering the fact that the dead body of the deceased was recovered from the house of the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner for the present. Accordingly, the prayer for 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.