Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28266 of 2012 (3) dt.11-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28266 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that about seven years after the marriage the daughter of the informant was killed for non fulfillment of dowry demands when the petitioner was not made accused. It is submitted that the informant being the mother of the victim has not alleged anything in the FIR. Brothers of the victim were examined in paragraphs 25 and 27 when they also did not support the prosecution version. Only suspicion has been raised against the petitioner by the supervising officer when it is submitted that since the informant has admitted the death after seven years of the marriage then the doubt by the supervision officer has no value as the case under [STATUTE] itself is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28266 of 2012 (3) dt.11-09-2012 not made out. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 SDJM, Pupri, Sitamarhi in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 102 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.