Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3758 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3758 of 2012 --- ============================================== 1. Ram Pravesh Manjhi son of Buta Manjhi 2. Karu Manjhi, both are resident of village Kandi Nawada, P.S.Chandauti, District Gaya .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ============================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Krishna Pd.Singh, Sr.Advocate and Rakesh Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ram Balav Singh,APP ============================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA) ---------- 2 25-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are accused of a case which has been registered for offences under [STATUTE] . After recovery of dead body of informant’s husband, present case was registered on suspicion that her husband might have been killed by the petitioners. Submission is that nobody has seen the occurrence. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3758 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 let the above named petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Chandauti P.S.Case No. 239 of 2011. Tahir/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, 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.