Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.49735 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.49735 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bhutali Singh @ Buteli Singh S/O Late Bhuneshwar Singh R/O Village - Dubba, P.S. Belhar, Distt. - Banka .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.S.K.Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER ----------- 2 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which has been registered for offence under [STATUTE] against unknown on the basis of information given by Awadhesh Kumar Singh regarding killing and throwing away corps of his brother Yagal Prasad Singh in Badua river. Submission is that nobody has seen the occurrence. Learned Sessions Judge who had occasion to go through the case diary has mentioned in his order that except suspicion there is nothing against the petitioner. The petitioner is a man of fair antecedent. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.49735 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Ad hoc Additional Sessions Judge IV, Banka in Sessions Trial No. 1155 of 2012. 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.