Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8683 of 2012 (3) dt.20-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8683 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Nagendra Yadav S/O Late Tori Yadav R/O Vill-Kakaria, P.S.Noorsarai, Distt-Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case instituted for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner is husband of the deceased and the police upon investigation found the case to be true under [STATUTE] as well as the fact that the dead body of the deceased was hurriedly disposed of which could not be located by the police in course of investigation, the prayer for bail is rejected. It is submitted at this stage that the case is still pending before the learned Magistrate. In that view of the matter, the learned Magistrate concerned is directed to immediately commit the case to the court of sessions for trial and once the record is received in the court of sessions, the trial may be expedited. Md.S./- (Ashwani 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.