Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.667 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Tiwari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is languishing in custody since 15.11.2011 in connection with Fatehpur P.S. Case No. 273 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya. The accusation is of killing the wife and disposing off the dead body. The informant has also suggested that earlier also the petitioner gave threatening to the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the nature of accusation, this Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.667 of 2012 (3) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly the prayer for bail is rejected. The petitioner is at liberty to renew his prayer for bail after examination of the informant. Amrendra/- (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.