Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44777 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Parvesh Ram S/O Late Girivar Ram R/O Village - Dhandhwa, P.S. - Muffasil, Distt. - Aurangabad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAVANITI PRASAD SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in Muffasil P.S. Case No. 133/2012 instituted under [STATUTE] . It is apparent that the petitioner has nothing to do with the allegation of [STATUTE] . The allegation against the petitioner is that being a Sarpanch, he mediated between the proscutrix and the main accused and imposed penalty, which amount is alleged to have been mis-appropriated by him. Be that as it may, in the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of his arrest or surrender in the Court below Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44777 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 2 / 2 2 within a period for four weeks from today, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in Muffasil P.S. Case No. 133/ 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Sudha/- (Navaniti Prasad 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.