Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1488 of 2012 Suganti Devi wife of Late Doma Mukhiya, Resident of village Baluwa Rampurwa, P.S.Bairia, District West Champaran Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02/ 11.01.2012 Heard Mr.Sachida Nand Rai, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.R.C.Singh, learned APP for the State. The petitioner is one of the five named accused of a case which has been registered for offences under [STATUTE] . Informant’s son Doma Mukhiya was married with the petitioner about 12 years prior to the occurrence. She was not being liked by his son, so when the informant’s son was not found it was suspected that he has been killed by his wife and others. Submission is that the 2 petitioner was carrying pregnancy and having good and cordial relationship with her husband and she had no motive at all to kill him. The petitioner still hopeful for her husband to be alive because the dead body which was said to be the informant’s son was found in highly decomposed stage and it was not in position to be identified. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in Bairia P.S.Case No. 162 of 2011. Tahir/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, 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.