Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10327 of 2012 ====================================================== Buchan Kandu @ Buchan Kanu @ Butan Sao .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The daughter of the informant went missing on 12.12.2011 when the informant along with her husband went to her mother’s place. On 13.12.2011 when the informant returned home she found her daughter missing when some informatory petition was given to the police. On 16.12.2011 the dead body was recovered. Thereafter on 19.12.2011 the present F.I.R. was lodged when suspicion was raised on the basis of information gathered from the neighbours that this petitioner visited the house of the informant on 12.12.2011 and earlier also he used to visit the house of the informant. Considering the delayed lodging of the F.I.R. and levelling suspicious nature of accusation on the basis of hearsay Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10327 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2 / 2 2 information, let the petitioner namely Buchan Kandu @ Buchan Kanu @ Butan Sao, 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 S.D.J.M., Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Obra P.S. Case No. 195 of 2011. 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.