Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39857 of 2011 ====================================================== Itwari Singh, S/o Bishundeo Singh, resident of Village- Madhurapur Dakshinwari Tola, P.S. Teghra, District Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Jai Prakash Verma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nagendra Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN) 3- 03-02-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Teghra P.S. Case No.05 of 2011 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The allegation against the petitioner is of having been last seen with the deceased son of the informant before he disappeared. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that on the basis of the confession made by one co accused Kishore Kumar the shoes and handkerchief of the deceased was recovered from the house of Arjun Singh. It is stated that merely by reason of that this petitioner having been seen with the deceased along with co-accused Chhote Singh and Venkat Kumar he has been roped in the present case on mere suspicion. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39857 of 2011 (3) dt.03-02-2012 2 It is submitted that co-accused Chhote Singh @ Shyam Kishore Singh has since been granted bail by a Bench of this Court in Cr. Misc. No.33221 of 2011. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and having perused the materials on record, let the petitioner, namely, Itwari Singh be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Gaurav Anand, learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Begusarai in connection with Teghra P.S. Case No.05 of 2011. SKPathak/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.