Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27579 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjit Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that in the marriage party while watching the dance performance, someone resorted to firing which caused injury to one Santosh who was being taken to Patna for treatment when he died. The petitioner is the father of bridegroom. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that it is not alleged that who actually fired as the petitioner was involved in the performance of the marriage and the investigation is still pending. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27579 of 2012 (2) dt.06-08-2012 2/2 (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur (Patna) in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 46 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner shall be accepted on filing of the affidavit by the petitioner before the learned court below to the effect that he will regularly co-operate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O., concerned. Non-co-operation in the investigation by the petitioner will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.