Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45090 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Pintu Yadav Son Of Harihar Yadav, Resident Of Village- Tilathi, P.S.- Saur Bazar, District- Saharsa, .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 4. 02-03-2012. Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Saur Bazar P.S.Case No.106 of 2008 for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner happens to be the husband. The allegation against him is of causing death of his wife i.e. daughter of the informant by reason of non-fulfillment of dowry demand. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the marriage between the petitioner and the deceased happened more than seven years ago and that the family members of the deceased had participated in the cremation. Learned counsel Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.45090 of 2011 (4) dt.02-03-2012 2 relies on the statement of the independent witnesses recorded in paras-16 to 19 of the case diary in support of his submission. It is further stated that the Superintendent of Police, Saharsa had restrained the arrest of the accused pending investigation into the matter and it is in this background that the petitioner was arrested on 14.6.2011 from the residence only. Regard being had to the circumstances and submissions of learned counsel, let the petitioner Pintu Yadav be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/ (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Saur Bazar P.S.Case No.106 of 2008 subject to the following conditions : (a) that the petitioner will receive the police papers on the given date and be present on date fixed for charge and if he fails to do so on two given dates and delays the trial in any manner, his bail bonds will be liable to be cancelled for reasons of misuse; (b) that the petitioner shall ensure his representation before the court below on each and every date fixed in the case and the failure on the part of the petitioner to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.45090 of 2011 (4) dt.02-03-2012 3 ensure his representation before the court below on two consecutive dates fixed in the case without reasonable explanation to the satisfaction of the court below, would entitle the court concerned to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner and to take him into custody. ahk/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.