Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5453 of 2012 (7) dt.05-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 5453 of 2012 ====================================================== Govind Bind .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 7 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail in a case under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is the husband though it is alleged that the victim wife was subjected to cruelty and was done to death. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the family members of the deceased took her on the bank of river Ganga and burn in cow dung and kerosene oil. Learned counsel for the informant stated that when the informant reached at the place of occurrence then found skeleton of the deceased. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no eye witness to the occurrence and there is no allegation of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5453 of 2012 (7) dt.05-07-2012 demand of dowry even it is not established that the said skeleton was of the daughter. However, the skeleton has been sent to the FSL but no report has been received. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case that there is no eye witness to the occurrence and the case hinges on the circumstantial evidence, the petitioner above named is ordered 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 the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh in connection with Mokama P. S. Case No. 95 of 2011. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.