Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.472 of 2012 Pappu Saw Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 06.01.2012 Petitioner being elder brother of the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Prosecution case is that the sister of the informant was enticed away by one Ganesh Saw who married with the sister of the informant and brought her to his house but subsequently she was murdered. It was speculated that petitioner being elder brother of the husband also conspired in killing of the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no direct material against the petitioner and other similarly situated accused persons have been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 30632 of 2011, a web copy of the order has been produced, let it be kept on record. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Pappu Saw, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Patliputra P.S. Case No. 36 of 2011. Shageer ( 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.