Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19010 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Vinay Chandra S/O Late Chandeshwar Prasad Singh Resident Of Village- Jhikahiyan, P.S. & District- Vaishali. .... .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH ORAL ORDER 2. 28-05-2012. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in Alamganj P.S. Case No. 359 of 2011 registered for offence under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has been implicated in the case only on the basis of suspicion without there being any legal or admissible evidence or materials to implicate him. It is submitted that the F.I.R was against unknown persons in which the brother of the informant is said to have been killed with knife. Learned counsel submits that the petitioner is co-villager of the deceased and that he is living in Patna for the purposes of coaching at a different Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19010 of 2012 (2) dt.28-05-2012 2 place. He submits that neither neither in the F.I.R nor in the restatement before the police his name been taken and only after six days, a statement has been made by the informant to the fact that there is suspicion of the petitioner being involved in the crime. It is submitted that the petitioner has clean antecedent and is in custody since 7.2.2012. Learned A.P.P. for the State, on the other hand, submits that the informant having taken the name of the petitioner, he does not deserve the privilege of bail. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, named above, be released on bail upon furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City in connection with Alamganj P.S. Case No. 359 of 2011. ahk/- (Ahsanuddin Amanullah, 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.