Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29068 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Pravesh @ Ram Pravesh Pandey @ Ram Pravesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant by administering poison through food. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that as per the own admission of the informant, the marriage was performed in the year 1987 when admittedly, the informant is not the eye-witness to the occurrence and only on suspicion, the accusation has been levelled as no previous information was given to the police with regard to earlier attempt of poisoning. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29068 of 2012 (2) dt.14-08-2012 2/2 a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah in connection with Kawakole P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on filing affidavit by the petitioner before the learned court below to the effect that he will regularly co-operate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O., concerned. The non- co-operation of the petitioner in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. 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.