Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16964 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajiv Kumar Singh S/O Subhash Prasad Singh R/O Village-Podia (Jhunjhunia ), Police Station - Sangrampur, District - Munger .... .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== PRESENT : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.N. HUSSAIN ORDER 3. 04-06-2012. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner is an accused in Sangrampur P.S.Case No.95 of 2008 for offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that though the allegation had been levelled against the petitioner who happens to be the husband of the deceased but from the case diary it is apparent that the deceased was suffering from severe stomach pain and her treatment was through out going on at her marital house and efforts were made for her treatment for which she was taken to several doctors who themselves have come to depose but subsequently in spite of the said frequent efforts of the petitioner she succumbed to her disease. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16964 of 2012 (3) dt.04-06-2012 2 the claim of the petitioner had been supported by the brother of the deceased herself which is apparent from paragraph 41 of the case diary and the statements of the doctor is noted in paragraphs 25 and 60 of the case diary. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is allowed. Let above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Sangrampur P.S.Case No.95 of 2008. ahk/- (S.N. Hussain, 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.