Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6385 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6385 of 2012 ====================================================== Bikash Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 04.05.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that the deceased died of her ailment and, as a matter of fact the informant participated in the funeral of the deceased but later on, he demanded some money from the family members of the petitioner and when the aforesaid demanded was refused by the family members of the petitioner, informant lodged this case after two days of the alleged occurrence and the aforesaid fact has been supported by the witnesses in course of investigation. It is also pointed out by him that the concerned Dy. S.P found the accusation untrue but on the direction of the Superintendent of Police, Investigating officer submitted charge sheet against the petitioner and others. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, I do not feel it proper to release the petitioner on bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6385 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner in connection with Azimabad P.S. Case no. 14/2011 pending in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara stands rejected. However, the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara is directed to commit the case of the petitioner to the court of Sessions in accordance with law within three weeks from the date of receipt of this order and after commitment, the trial court shall try to conclude the trial of the petitioner as early as possible, preferably, within nine months from the date of commitment. It is made clear that if within the above stated period, trial of the petitioner is not concluded, the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.