Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9465 of 2012 (4) dt.07-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9465 of 2012 ============================================= Lato Singh @ Aditya Narain Singh, son of late Deoki Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ============================================= With Criminal Miscellaneous No.8782 of 2012 ============================================= Munnu Singh, son of late Bachhu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ============================================= With Criminal Miscellaneous No.15761 of 2012 ============================================= Lovekush Singh @ Lavkush Kumar, son of Yugal Kishore Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ============================================= CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 4 07-05-2012 All the three applications are being heard together and disposed of by this common order. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State who is armed with carbon copy of the case diary. None turned on behalf of the informant in spite of repeated calls. These applications have been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioners who are in custody for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9465 of 2012 (4) dt.07-05-2012 offences punishable under [STATUTE] . In this case instituted against five persons only petitioner Munnu Singh one of the named but on mere suspicion due to enmity. Name of remaining two petitioners emerged during investigation as the persons participating in killing of husband of the informant whose dead body was found in a pond. Submission is of false implication due to some earlier enmities without any substantive materials and one of the named accused Chunchun Singh has already been released on bail vide order dated 20.03.2012 passed by a Bench of this court in Cr. Misc. No. 8322/2012. Further, none of the petitioners have any criminal antecedent. If, it is so, let the above named petitioners be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah, in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 149/2011, with a condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case, in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.