Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28201 of 2012 (3) dt.28-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28201 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 28.09.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is languishing in jail custody since 3.10.2010 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Earlier prayer for bail of the petitioner was rejected by this court with direction to trial court to conclude the trial of the petitioner within seven months from the date of receipt/production of the aforesaid rejection order. The learned trial court has reported that charges were framed against the petitioner on 18.4.2011 and after that one prosecution witness was examined on 29.2.2012. It has further been reported by the learned trial court that the copy of the order of this court passed in Cr. Misc. no. 812/2011 dated 31.1.2012 was filed before the trial court bringing this fact to the notice of the trial court that further proceeding of the aforesaid case has been stayed by this court. Regard being had to facts and circumstances as well as above stated submissions, let the petitioner, Promod Bhagat, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28201 of 2012 (3) dt.28-09-2012 Sessions Judge FTC No. I, Begusarai in Sessions trial no. 248/2011 arising out of Barauni P.S. Case no. 183/2010. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.