Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9773 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Paswan @ Mukaba @ Muaba .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that husband of the informant went to Begusarai to pay rent when next day morning his dead body was recovered in a orchard. The petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. and during investigation two circumstances surfaced against the petitioner that the victim one day prior to occurrence took toddy at the shop of the petitioner and two accused persons in their confessions named the petitioner. It appears that similarly situated accused person has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 37806 of 2011. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9773 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Begusarai Muffasil P.S. Case No. 63 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Begusarai. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.