Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3806 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Radha Kishun Sah S/O Late Ganesh Sah Resident Of Village- Emilia Tola Bhawal, Police Station- Ramnagar, District- West Champaran .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 23.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the threats were given by the agnates of the deceased for transferring the land and the house when the informant was present. Next day the informant came to know about the death of his daughter. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a resident of different village and the agnates of the deceased have been granted bail which gets reflected from Annexure-2. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Radha Kishun Sah, be released on bail on furnishing Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3806 of 2012 (2) dt.10-02-2012 2/2 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Ramnagar P.S. Case No. 142 of 2011. DKS/ (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.