Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.840 of 2012 (2) dt.17-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.840 of 2012 ====================================================== Hari Mohan Bhandari .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 17-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the father of the husband 29.11.2011 is languishing in custody since in a case registered for the offence under [STATUTE] . The accusation is against the petitioner to have instigated the husband and other for making demand of dowry. The victim died on 16.05.2011 for which complaint was lodged on 24.04.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 29.05.2011. It appears that the informant subsequently retracted from his initial version and admitted that the victim died due to snake bite. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.840 of 2012 (2) dt.17-01-2012 petitioner above named 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 C.J.M. Samastipur in connection with Khanpur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011. U. K. (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.