Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5264 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 25.11.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . On recovery of the dead body from a river on 14.02.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged. It is alleged that the deceased along with the daughter of one accused Ramkhelawan Ram eloped from their respective houses on 09.02.2011. It is further alleged that the deceased had taken shelter in the house of his maternal grand father in U.P. and maternal aunt of the deceased disclosed in course of investigation on 14.02.2011 that the accused persons including the petitioner forcibly took away the deceased from her house and aforesaid incident was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5264 of 2012 (2) dt.24-02-2012 2 / 2 2 immediately reported by her to her father-in-law who in turn reported the matter immediately to the informant but it is surprising enough that not even a sanha was given by the father of the deceased to the concerned police station about the above state incident. Considering the circumstantial nature of accusation, others have been granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 11902 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Durgawati P.S. Case No. 12.2011. Amrendra/- (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.