Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1957 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Tuntun Thakur S/O Kedar Thakur Resident Of Village- Roh, P.S.- Roh, District- Nawada .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.3380 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mandal Sao S/O Shyam Sundar Sao Resident Of Village- Roh, P.S- Roh, District- Nawada. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.4664 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rajesh Thakur S/O Bindeshwar Thakur R/O Roh, P.S.- Roh, Distt.- Nawada .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : (In Cr.Misc. No.1957 of 2012) For the Petitioner : Mr. Bhavesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rajendra Pd. Nat, APP For the Informant : Mr. Birendra Kumar, Advocate (In Cr.Misc. No.3380 of 2012) For the Petitioner : Mr. Surendra Kishore Thakur, Advocate For the State : Mr. R.S. Choudhary, APP For the Informant : Mr. Birendra Kumar, Advocate (In Cr.Misc. No.4664 of 2012) For the Petitioner : Mr. A.K.Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. S.M. Rahman, APP For the Informant : Mr. Birendra Kumar, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1957 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2/3 2/3 02/ 02-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are languishing in custody in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioners went with the victim in the evening for taking toddy and next day the dead body was recovered from a water canal with some injuries. None appears on behalf of petitioners Tuntun Thakur and Mandal Sao. It is submitted that petitioner Tuntun Thakur has criminal antecedent also. Considering the circumstantial nature of accusation, let the above named three petitioners, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Roh P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011. Considering the criminal antecedent of petitioner Tuntun Thakur, the learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of petitioner Tuntun Thakur if he defaults for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1957 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 3/3 3/3 three consecutive occasions or gets involved in similar nature of offence. DKS/ (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.