Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5022 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Fulchand Singh S/O Sri Birendra Singh Resident Of Village- Kool, P.S.- Nalanda, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim conveyed to the informant that she consumed poison and it was petitioner’s side who took the victim to the hospital and informant subsequently retracted from his earlier version. In view of this Court, the aforesaid facts can be a good ground for consideration of regular bail. Let Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5022 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 2/2 the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Nalanda P.S. Case No. 78 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif when the learned court below will consider the prayer for bail of the petitioner and pass appropriate order. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.