Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23133 of 2012 ====================================================== Sk. Mahboob Alam .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-07-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . One dead body was recovered by the chaukidar with injury when F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. The name of the petitioner sprang up on confession of the co- accused Md. Mahboob who is alleged to be the husband of the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that Md. Mahboob has been acquitted vide Session Trial No. 33 of 1989. This Court is not inclined to interfere since the case was registered in 1988. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner, keeping in view that other co- accused has been acquitted, if the petitioner surrenders within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23133 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 2 / 2 2 a period of six weeks in connection with Azam Nagar P.S. Case No. 109 of 1988, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.