Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7629 of 2012 ====================================================== Parma Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The deceased along with the petitioner and some others were engaged in fishery business and his food was stated to be provided by co accused Benga Sahni. It is alleged that co accused Benga Sahni and his wife were seen dragging the dead body of the deceased towards the river where belongings of the deceased were also found. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that only on suspicion the petitioner has been roped in the present case and similarly situated other co accused Nand Kumar Sahni has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44949 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, this Court sees no reason for the learned court below to give similar relief to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7629 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner in case he surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Sangrampur P.S. Case no. 11 of 2011 pending in the court of C.J.M., Motihari. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.