Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38021 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Pandit @ Sushil Kumar Pandit .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s husband and husband’s brother were working in the mill of Sita Ram Santhaliya but they went missing since 28.09.2011 when it was suspected that Sita Ram Santhaliya, his son and this petitioner being the Munshi of Sita Ram Santhaliya killed the husband and the husband’s brother of the informant. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that accusation was based on mere suspicion when subsequently the informant retracted from her initial version and considering the same Sita Ram Santhaliya and Sonu Santhaliya @ Saurav Kumar Santhaliya have been granted anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38021 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 2 / 2 2 vide Cr. Misc. No. 39139 of 2011 by this Court with direction for verifying the factum of retracted version of the informant and in pursuance to direction of this Court both the aforesaid accused were granted anticipatory bail. It is further submitted that the case of the petitioner is on better footing than those the aforesaid two accused persons who have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kahalgaon P.S. Case No. 354 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bhagalpur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.