Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34895 of 2011 (3) dt.13-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34895 of 2011 ====================================================== Md. Arsad, son of Md. Ala Babu, resident of Village+P.O.- Ali Nagar Leodhan, P.S. Baligaon, District- Vaishali. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 13-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Baligaon P.S. Case No. 55 of 2010, registered under [STATUTE] . There is allegation that one Ahasan came and called the deceased and took him. However, the name of the petitioner disclosed by the informant itself at the subsequent stage of investigation and other witnesses in para 49, 50 and 51 of the case diary could not develop the case of the last seen or the motive. Under the facts and circumstances of the case, the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender with a period of four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34895 of 2011 (3) dt.13-04-2012 Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur at Vaishali, in connection with Baligaon P.S. Case No. 55 of 2010, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of Cr.P.C. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.