Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44519 of 2011 (4) dt.27-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44519 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Shambhu Prasad S/O Late Arbind Kumar R/O Village - Fatepur , P.S. - Hilsa ( Karai ) District - Nalanda .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Rewati Kant Raman, Adv. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Nand Kishore Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 4 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] . There is allegation of demand of dowry and subjecting cruelty for non-fulfillment of the demand. It is alleged that the victim was done to death and the dead body was disposed off. The petitioner is the husband of the victim. In the case diary it has come that the victim died of by the poisoning, as apparent from the different paragraphs 42, 43 and other paragraphs of the case diary. The dead body was disposed off without informing the public authority or the naiher people of the victim. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in jail since 02.09.2011. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. However, if the trial is not concluded within a year then the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. SA/- (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.