Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12095 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12095 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Afsar Ali S/O Late Nijamuddin Kuraishi Resident Of Village- Mirganj, West Mohalla , P.O. & P.S.- Mirganj, District- Gopalganj. .... .... Petitioner. Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Sunil Kumar Pathak, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Ataur Rahman, APP. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER 2 21-03-2012 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which has been registered against unknown under [STATUTE] after recovery of skeleton of a person. Submission is that the petitioner’s complicity has come on the basis of confessional statement of Irfan Kurashi who has been admitted to bail. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the above named petitioner is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12095 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate/court concerned, Gopalganj in connection with Mirganj P.S. Case No. 155 of 2011. KKSINHA/- (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.