Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8993 of 2012 ====================================================== Rupesh Kewat @ Rupesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after four years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that when the victim committed suicide, a UD case was registered and for the occurrence of 24.12.2005, the complaint was filed on 31.12.2005. This Court is not inclined to entertain the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioner only because the complaint was filed in 2005 and cognizance was taken in 2006. In view of this court, the contentions of learned counsel Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8993 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 for the petitioner can be good grounds for consideration of regular bail of the petitioner by the learned court below in case the petitioner surrenders in connection with Complaint Case no. 680 C of 2005 pending in the court of J.M. Ist Class, Barh, Patna The learned court below will consider the prayer for regular bail without being prejudiced by this order. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.