Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20401 of 2012 ====================================================== Amit Kumar Roy .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that one Sanjay Singh called the informant’s son for attending some marriage, subsequently informant’s son did not return. Petitioner’s name was suspected in the First Information Report. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that except suspicion, nothing was found against the petitioner during investigation. It is further submitted that accused Ram Chandra Sharma and Mukesh Singh were directed to surrender vide Cr. Misc. No. 5664 of 2009 and Cr. Misc. No. 19431 of 2009 with direction to the Court below to consider their regular bail, if no direct material were found and consequently as submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that those Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20401 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2 / 2 2 persons have been granted bail by learned Court below. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation and the order passed with regard to other accused, I do not find that learned Court below should give a different treatment to the petitioner, if petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Nawkothi P.S. Case No. 103 of 2008, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.