Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44903 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Md. Nizam @ Nizam Hazam S/O Sri Achhey Mian @ Md. Achhey Mian Resident Of Village - Jamua , P.S. And District - Rohtas (Sasaram).. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sumant Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. S.K. Pandey, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 3. 13-02-2012 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Sessions Trial No.7A of 2011 arising from Rohtas P.S.Case No.41 of 2010 for offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Allegation against this petitioner is of having been last seen with the victim son of the informant who went traceless thereafter. It is on the confession made by this petitioner recorded in para-25 of the case diary that the dead body of the victim boy was recovered. That being the position, no case for indulgence is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44903 of 2011 (3) dt.13-02-2012 2 made out and the prayer is refused. The application is dismissed. As the matter is already on trial, the trial court would be well advised to expedite the trial. ahk (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.