Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5149 of 2012 (4) dt.10-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5149 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Thakur @Kaushal @ Anil Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 04/ 10.05.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 26.8.2010 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and earlier his prayer for bail was rejected by this court vide order dated 20.7.2011 passed in Cr. Misc. no. 7129/2011 with direction to the court in seisin to commit the case of the petitioner in accordance with law. The Addl. Sessions Judge FTC no. III, Madhubani reported vide letter no. 96/ 12 dated 17.4.2012 that charges have already been framed against the petitioner on 27.9.2011 but up till now, not a single prosecution witness has been examined though processes to procure attendance of the prosecution witnesses have already been issued. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner drew my attention towards para 5 of the impugned order and submitted that in course of investigation some witnesses stated that deceased committed suicide out of frustration. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as period of detention of the petitioner in jail custody, let the petitioner, Anil Thakur @ Kaushal @ Anil Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5149 of 2012 (4) dt.10-05-2012 amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani in Pandaul P.S. Case no. 104/2010. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.