Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26584 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26584 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Angad Rai S/O Sri Bhagwan Rai 2. Birendra Rai S/O Bhuneshwar Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 2 27-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners are in jail custody since 05.04.2012 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . There is allegation against the petitioners that they along with others took the deceased from his house and later on, the dead body of the deceased was recovered. Admittedly, none has seen the actual killing of the deceased and at best it is a case of last seen. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that in course of investigation co-accused, Bajrangi Rai was arrested and he confessed his guilt but in his confessional statement he stated that deceased was killed by him. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26584 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Sahar P.S. Case No. 34 of 2012. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.