Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42091 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Amarjeet Mishra. 2. Mahendra Sahni. 3. Amrendra Mishra @ Babloo. 4. Ram Balli Sahni. 5. Basant Sahni. 6. Jai Kishun Sahni. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in Patepur P.S. Case No. 149 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act pending in the court of learned CJM., Vaishali at Hajipur. It is alleged that for removing the parked truck, Madan Mohan Mishra assaulted to Ranjan Thakur and when Tuntun Rai protested then Madan Mohan Mishra caused firearm injury on the neck of said Tuntun Rai which resulted into death of Tuntun Rai on spot. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioners were not named in the FIR but subsequently their names sprang up as the persons who assisted in disposing of the dead body. The FIR named accused Madan Mohan Mishra and Murari Mishra have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42091 of 2012 (2) dt.07-12-2012 2/2 Cr. Misc. Nos. 21402 of 2012 and 25129 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost 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.