Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23365 of 2012 ====================================================== Vinod Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 19-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after 8-9 years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that as per own admission of the informant that the marriage was performed 8-9 years prior to the occurrence the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] . It is further submitted that there is no eye witness to the occurrence and moreover, the doctor has been examined during investigation Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23365 of 2012 (3) dt.19-09-2012 2/2 suggested that the victim was brought to him but by the time the victim reached to the doctor she was dead. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Mohania P.S. Case No. 330 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner if he defaults for three consecutive occasions. 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.