Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44594 of 2011 (3) dt.13-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44594 of 2011 ====================================================== Umesh Rai, son of Kapleshwar Rai, resident of Village - Sherpur Diara, Police Station - Vidyapatinagar, District - Samastipur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Rana Sanjay Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ashok Kumar No.1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 3 13-03-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. Case No.93 of 2010 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the police after investigation submitted charge-sheet under [STATUTE] and that the cognizance has been taken under the said provisions. Considering the circumstances, let the petitioner, namely, Umesh Rai be released on the bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingsarai, Samastipur in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. Case No.93 of 2010. SKPathak/- (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.