Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40820 of 2012 ====================================================== Babu Lal Yadav, S/o Lalu Yadav, Resident of Village Thuwai, P.S. Sherghati, Dist. Gaya. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MIHIR KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 2 09-10-2012 Having regard to the fact that the co-accused Panwa Devi, the mother-in-law of the deceased, has been granted bail by an order dated 19.7.2012 in Cr. Misc. No. 25257 of 2012, this Court is also inclined to grant bail to the petitioner, father-in-law of the deceased and against whom also there is no allegation of any specific overt act in relation to the alleged offence under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. That being so, the petitioner, namely, Babu Lal Yadav is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M., Sherghati, Gaya in connection with Sherghati P.S. Case No. 27 of 2012, subject to the following conditions:- (i) The two bail bonds will be furnished, one by a Government servant and the other by a close family relative. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40820 of 2012 (2) dt.09-10-2012 2 (ii) The petitioner will remain present in course of trial on each and every day and his absence even for two consecutive days would automatically entail the consequences of cancellation of his bail. (iii) The petitioner in case is now made accused in any other criminal case, that would itself lead to cancellation of his bail. Subject to the aforementioned conditions, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is allowed. Rishi/- (Mihir Kumar Jha, 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.