Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1342 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kamala Devi 2. Lalia Devi 3. Durgawati Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.2180 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Prem Kumar Patel 2. Shri Kishun Patel 3. Mukesh Patel 4. Purushottam Patel. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 17-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The informant’s minor child went missing on 14.04.2011 subsequently on 15.04.2011 his dead body was found in maize field when the F.I.R. was lodged against unknown subsequently the protest petition was filed by the informant on 14.05.2011 wherein it was alleged that one Amit and Arbind were giving threats to the informant but in the subsequent statement the suspicion was raised against these petitioners being Tantrik to have offered the child to the goddess. The basis of the suspicion is only the statement of the father of Amit and Arbind who conveyed that he saw Prem Kumar Patel carrying the boy in the night. This disclosure by the father of those two suspected persons inspired no confidence since it was not disclosed by him when the search for the boy was made and when the F.I.R. was lodged. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 49/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.