Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11037 of 2012 (3) dt.02-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11037 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pharsani Ram S/O Suresh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 02-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 19.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Originally, informant filed complaint case bearing Complaint Case No. 896 of 2010 which was converted into police case. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the aforesaid complaint case was filed on 09.07.2010 but when the informant realized his fault, he filed a withdrawal petition in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabua on 19.07.2010 and the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabua directed the police officials not to register the case, if the same has not been registered. It is further contended by Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11037 of 2012 (3) dt.02-07-2012 him that in course of investigation, the supervising authority found the case true under [STATUTE] but in spite of that charge-sheet has been submitted under [STATUTE] . 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, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 88 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.