Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35851 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-09-2012 Petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the complainant after four years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that victim died due to illness at Luckhnow. The medical prescriptions and death certificate issued by the hospital has been brought on record as Annexure- 2 and 3 which reflects that the death was natural. It is further submitted that complainant has admitted in the complaint petition that he came to know about the occurrence on 02.07.2010 but the complaint was filed on 07.07.2010. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35851 of 2012 (3) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Pramod Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Complaint Case No. 1895 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.