Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40578 of 2011 Jagarnath Thakur, S/O-Late Jagdish Thakur Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 03 10.01.2012 Supplementary affidavit is filed on behalf of the petitioner. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is languishing in jail custody since 15.07.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that deceased died on account of her ailment and her dead body was cremated in presence of the informant and others but later on, dispute arose between the parties on the point of two and half years old child of the deceased and the aforesaid fact has been stated by the witnesses in course of investigation. 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 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 146 of 2011. 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.