Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36060 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sanjay Mahto @ Bam Bam Mahto, s/o Halo Mahto 2. Ranjeet Mahto, s/o late Lado Mahto @ Shankar Mahto, both residents of village Chauki, P.S. Sahebpur Kamal, district Begusarai .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 25-09-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail for offence under [STATUTE] . The first information report is against unknown and the only material against the petitioners is the confessional statement of the co-accused, Sikandar Yadav. The learned counsel for the State submits that the confessional statement is in detail about the occurrence. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case that the confessional statement of the co-accused is before the police, the petitioners, above named, are directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Balia P.S. Case No. 80 of 2012 to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.