Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27493 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27493 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramnath Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 12.09.2012 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 custody since 30.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3/ 4 of the D.P. Act. Marriage of the petitioner had taken place with the deceased in the year 2009 but within one year of the marriage deceased died in other than normal circumstance. There is allegation against the petitioner that he used to torture the deceased on account of non- fulfillment of illegal demand of dowry. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that deceased died of snake biting and the aforesaid fact was supported by the witnesses in course of investigation. On the other hand, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor points out that dead body of the deceased was disposed off by the petitioner and his associates without giving any proper information to the natal people of the deceased. So, the aforesaid circumstance clearly indicates the involvement of the petitioner in the alleged crime. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, I am not inclined to release the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27493 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 on bail an accordingly, his prayer for bail in Khanpur P.S. Case no. 56/2010 pending in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur is, hereby, rejected. 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.