Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6071 of 2012 (3) dt.23-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6071 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashwani Kumar @ Pintoo Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 23.08.2012 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 23.7.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . According to the prosecution case itself, marriage of the deceased had taken place with the petitioner in the year 2005 whereas deceased died in the year 2010 i.e. after five years of the marriage. In course of investigation, co-villagers of the petitioner stated that on the alleged date of the occurrence, deceased along with her son had gone to attend call of nature but unfortunately, she was electrocuted and died in course of her treatment. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that after the above stated incident, the deceased was immediately taken to hospital and she was referred to Gaya for better treatment but unfortunately, she died while she was being taken to Gaya. Although Superintendent of Police, Gaya disbelieved the aforesaid story and directed the Investigating officer to submit charge sheet under [STATUTE] against the petitioner and others but considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6071 of 2012 (3) dt.23-08-2012 well as submissions of the parties coupled with the period of detention of the petitioner in jail custody, let the petitioner, Ashwani Kumar @ Pintoo Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Khizersarai P.S. Case no. 136/2010. 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.