Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20646 of 2012 (4) dt.19-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20646 of 2012 ====================================================== Satya Narayan Mandal @ Satto Mandal S/O Late Sanchu Mandal Resident Of Village- Nawada, P.S.- Naugachia, District- Bhagalpur. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJENDRA KUMAR MISHRA ORAL ORDER 4 19-10-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Naugachia P.S. Case No. 25 of 1989 registered under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not named in the First Information Report and has been falsely implicated in this case mere on suspicion. In course of investigation, it has only come that petitioner was seen with the other accused. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner but submitted that on perusal of the case diary it appears that the accusation against the petitioner is that he was seen with the other accused. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20646 of 2012 (4) dt.19-10-2012 case, the petitioner above named is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned 3rd Additional Sessions Judge, Naugachia, District-Bhagalpur in connection with Naugachia P.S. Case No. 25 of 1989. Safik/- (Rajendra Kumar Mishra, 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.