Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5648 of 2012 (3) dt.10-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5648 of 2012 ====================================================== Amarjit Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 10-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the victim was found dead in the room of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that the victim was in love with the petitioner when the family members of the petitioner fixed his marriage somewhere else. It is submitted that on the alleged date of occurrence, the petitioner was not at the place of occurrence when paragraph 6 of the petition reflects that the police entered into the room through window and found the victim having committed suicide when suicidal notes were also recovered. It is further submitted that it has come during investigation that the victim got the lock of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5648 of 2012 (3) dt.10-05-2012 petitioner’s room removed and then entered into the room whereas it has been submitted by learned counsel for the state that the dead body was recovered from the room of the petitioner. Considering the nature of accusation, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner but in view of this court, the contentions of learned counsel for the petitioner can be good grounds for consideration of regular bail of the petitioner by the learned court below in case the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Mithanpura P.S. Case no. 171 of 2011 pending in the court of C.J.M., Muzaffarpur. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.