Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13818 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kuamr Prasad @ Sahni & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 01-05-2012 Let in the order dated 20.04.2012 in 2nd paragraph [STATUTE] be also incorporated and in 3rd paragraph be read as the investigation being pending instead of charge sheet was submitted in the year 2008. The order dated 20.04.2012 stands modified to the extent indicated above. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax in connection with Kankarbagh P.S. Case No. 735 of 2005 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/- (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.