Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20924 of 2012 ====================================================== Shivnath Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 02-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the informant of the present case is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It was alleged by the petitioner being the informant that his agnates who were named in the FIR slit the neck of his second wife, but during course of investigation it transpired that it was this petitioner and his first wife killed the victim. The confession to that effect has been made by the first wife of the petitioner also. In view of this Court, it is not a case for anticipatory bail in connection with Rajepur P.S. Case No. 107 of 2009 pending in the court of learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20924 of 2012 (3) dt.02-08-2012 2/2 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) . .

Applicable IPC Section: 199

Statute Text:
Section 199 of the Indian Penal Code. False statement made in any declaration which by law receivable as evidence. Whoever, in any declaration made or subscribed by him, which declaration any Court of Justice, or any public servant or other person, is bound or authorized by law to receive as evidence of any fact, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, touching any point material to the object for which the declaration is made or used, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.