Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7448 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7448 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Singh & Manoj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 04.05.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 13.5.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, petitioner is husband of the deceased and furthermore, marriage of the petitioner had taken place with the deceased eight months ago. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that deceased died of her ailment and before her death she was taken to a doctor which is evident from perusal of annexure 2 to this petition. It is further contended by him that on the alleged date of the occurrence, petitioner had given information about the condition of the deceased on telephone which is evident from perusal of annexure 3 to this petition and after that dead body of the deceased was cremated at cremation ghat which is evident from perusal of annexure 4 to this petition. It is also pointed out by him that in course of investigation, doctor also verified this fact that prior to her death, deceased came to his clinic. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7448 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 Regard being had to the facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner in connection with Phulwarisharif P.S. Case no. 82/2011 pending in the court of Sri Md Saleem, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Patna is, hereby, rejected. However, it is informed by learned counsel for the petitioner that charges have already been framed against the petitioner and, therefore, in the aforesaid circumstances, concerned court is directed to conclude the trial of the petitioner within nine months from the date of receipt of this order, failing which the petitioner shall be entitled to renew his prayer for bail in the trial court itself. shahid (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.