Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23319 of 2012 ====================================================== Shiv Kumar Yadav .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that his daughter-in-law Akashwati Devi was illicit relationship with Mano Yadav which was opposed by her husband- eceased when Mano Yadav in connivance with this petitioner have killed the son of the informant. Subsequently Mano Yadav was arrested and accepted his guilt and alleged that this petitioner and others have also assisted him in eliminating the son of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that except confession of Mano Yadav there is nothing on record against the petitioner. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23319 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2 / 2 2 It appears that Mano Yadav has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 41417 of 2010. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Marauna P.S. Case No. 21 of 2010 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Supaul. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.