Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39921 of 2011 ====================================================== Arun Rai, S/o Madan Rai, R/o Village- Chamtha Number, P.S.-Bachwara, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Dewendra Narayan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Ms. Anita Kumari Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 3 21-02-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Bachwara P.S. Case No.69 of 2011 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The grand son of the informant went missing from the house while he was sleeping along with others. The occasion was the marriage of the daughter of the informant and on the following day at 5.00AM the informant was informed that the dead body of his grand-son was found in the field with his head buried in the soil. The name of the petitioner has been involved in the present case allegedly on the ground that he wanted to get the marriage of the daughter of the informant deferred. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that for the only suspicion aforesaid this petitioner has been taken into custody. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39921 of 2011 (3) dt.21-02-2012 2 Regard being had to the submission of learned counsel, let the petitioner, namely, Arun Rai be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri B.K. Sinha No.II, Additional Sessions Judge-III, Begusarai in connection with Session Trial No.838 of 2011 arising from Bachwara P.S. Case No.69 of 2011 SKPathak/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.