Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43602 of 2012 (2) dt.01-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43602 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandan Kumar @ Abhishek Kumar, S/o Ravindra Prasad, Resident of Village- Bihat, P.S. Barauni, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 01-11-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has been arrested in connection with Barauni P.S. Case No. 303 of 2012 registered under [STATUTE] . F.I.R. is against unknown. However, there is no eye witness to the occurrence. Only material against the petitioner is that on his confession a mobile of the deceased was recovered from the house of the sister of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that confession before the police is not admissible in the eye of law and recovery of mobile from the house of sister of the petitioner as mentioned in the impugned order the petitioner can not be held responsible for recovery of said mobile and the case hinges on circumstantial evidence. Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, the above named petitioner is directed to be released on bail on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43602 of 2012 (2) dt.01-11-2012 furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai, in connection with Barauni P.S. Case No. 303 of 2012. 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.