Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9389 of 2012 ====================================================== Janakdhari Patel .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The informant’s minor son went missing on 14.4.2011 and subsequently on 15.4.2011 his dead body was found in the maize field when the FIR was lodged against unknown. Subsequently, the protest petition was filed by the informant on 14.5.2011 wherein it was alleged that Amit and Arbind were giving threats to the informant but in the subsequent statement the suspicion was raised against petitioner and others being Tantrik and to have offered the child to the Goddess. The basis of the suspicion is only the statement of the father of Amit and Arbind who conveyed that he saw Prem Kumar Patel carrying the boy in the night. This disclosure by the father of those two suspected persons inspired no confidence since it was not disclosed by him Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9389 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2 / 2 2 when the search for the boy was made and when the FIR was lodged and considering the suspicious nature of accusation, others have been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts and submissions, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 49 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.