Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17586 of 2012 ====================================================== Sujit Kumar, Son of Mulhai Paswan. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] . In this case, instituted against unknown, petitioner’s name emerged on recovery of dead-body of a female during investigation as the person having some sweet relationship resulting into her pregnancy and during attempt of abortion she died and body was thrown. Submission is of false implication and petitioner having no criminal antecedent and one of the co-accused, namely, Pinki Devi has already been released on bail vide order dated 05.01.2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 37610/2011 by a Bench of this Court. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, for the present, prayer for regular bail of the above named petitioner, in connection with Sessions Trial No. 608/2011 arising out of Mushari P.S. Case No. 80/2011, pending in the court of learned 6th Additional Sessions Judge, Muzaffarpur, is hereby, refused with a direction to the trial court to proceed expeditiously with the trial and avoid undue delay and adjournments. Further, petitioner is at liberty to renew his prayer before the trial court itself, if so wishes, after examination of the sister of the deceased (paragraph – 133 of the case diary). Praveen-II/- (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.