Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.46899 of 2012 (2) dt.12-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.46899 of 2012 ====================================================== Shatrudhan Singh, Son of Late Rajendra Singh, Resident of Village- Mahuani, P.S. Awatarnagar, District- Saran. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 12-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the informant as well as learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has been arrested in connection with Awatarnagar P.S. Case No. 97 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that only material against the petitioner is that victim was last seen with the petitioner on 06. 11. 2011 and dead body of the deceased was recovered on 09. 11. 2011. Except last seen there was no material against petitioner as apparent from the order of the Additional Sessions Judge as well as in First Information Report. It is further submitted that one of the co-accused Sethi Mahto has been granted bail by this Court and the case of the petitioner is on similar footing. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the above named petitioner is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.46899 of 2012 (2) dt.12-12-2012 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Chapra in connection with U.T. Case No. 189 of 2012 ( Awatarnagar P.S. Case No. 97 of 2011), subject to condition that petitioner shall appear on each and every date fixed in this case. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.