Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42723 of 2011 (4) dt.07-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42723 of 2011 ====================================================== Kapil Das & Anr. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 04/ 07.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased are languishing in jail custody since 15.4.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that deceased died in rail accident for which Bakhtiyarpur S.D.E Case no. 161/2010 was registered and post mortem report also corroborates the above stated fact. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners, Kapil Das and Munni Devi, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh District Patna in Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case no. 181/2010. 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.