Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1694 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Ashraf Ali @ Md. Asraf Ansari @ Md. Ashraf Ansari S/O Md. Iliyas Ansari Resident Of Villge Mirapur, P.S. Sakra, District Muzaffarpur. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 02/ 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The bail prayer of the petitioner has been renewed in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Earlier rejection order dated14.3.2011 contained in Annexure-1 reflects that considering the merit of the case the prayer for bail was rejected since petitioner is husband. This Court finds no ground for revising the earlier order of this Court, hence the application for bail is rejected. However, it is expected from the learned court below to expedite the trial and conclude the same within a period of one year. If the trial will not be concluded within a period of one year, the petitioner will be at liberty to renew his prayer for bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1694 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2/2 in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 87 of 2007 pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge –IXth, Muzaffarpur. Let the order 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.