Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43834 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Kumar Nath Jha @ Kumar Jha S/O Bhola Jha Resident Of Village- Itwa- Shivnagar, P.S.- Biraul, District- Darbhanga .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3. 04-05-2012. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This application has been field for grant of regular bail to the petitioner who is husband of deceased in connection with Biraul P.S.Case No.92 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] . The marriage of the petitioner and the daughter of informant was solemnized in the year 2007 and the occurrence is said to have taken place in the year 2011. There is allegation of demand of dowry and torture against the petitioner. It appears that the victim was burnt to death in her sasural and the dead body was found in the house of the petitioner. It is also alleged that a small child of victim was also burnt. She was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43834 of 2011 (3) dt.04-05-2012 2 also used to be subjected to cruelty for nonfulfilment of demand of money and just before the occurrence she was subjected to cruelty. Having regards to the facts and circumstances, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The application is dismissed. ahk/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.