Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16919 of 2012 (3) dt.03-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16919 of 2012 ====================================================== Balmiki Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance: For the Petitioner : Mr. A.K. Thakur, Advocate Mr Ravindra Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Ram Priya Sharan Singh, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 03.07.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 10.1.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that the deceased died of her ailment and moreover, not a single prosecution witness claimed to have seen the alleged occurrence and the entire case is based on hearsay evidence. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Balmiki Rai, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in Sahar P.S. Case no. 102/2011. 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.