Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9874 of 2011 (3) dt.24-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9874 of 2011 ====================================================== Jawahar Mandal, son of late Matuki Mandal @ Bhutaki Mandal, resident of village-Sahpur, P.S. (Ghosha) Kahalgaon, District-Bhagalpur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 03. 24-01-2012 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Sabour P.S. Case No. 102 of 2010, G.R. No. 1693 of 2010 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Considering the submission of learned counsel for the petitioner that the involvement of the petitioner in the present case is only on the basis of suspicion and that there is no incriminating circumstance connecting this petitioner with the alleged offence and that the petitioner has a clean antecedent, let the petitioner Jawahar Mandal be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Sabour P.S. Case No. 102 of 2010, G.R. No. 1693 of 2010. S.Sb/- (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.