Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17119 of 2011 Sanjay Yadav Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 05/ 25.01.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 11.6.2010 in a case initially, registered under [STATUTE] but after completion of investigation, police submitted charge sheet under [STATUTE] . It would appear from perusal of the first information report that dead body of the deceased was recovered from a well on 24.7.2001 and fardbeyan of the informant was recorded on 25.7.2001 and at the time of recording the fardbeyan of the informant, dead body of the deceased was lying in the house of the petitioner meaning thereby that dead body of the deceased was not disposed off by the petitioner as well as his family members in a hurried manner rather it appears to me that they waited for disposal of the dead body of the deceased till arrival of the informant. Therefore, considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Sanjay Yadav, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Sessions Judge FTC No. V, Gaya in Sessions trial no. 5 of 2011/27 of 2011 arising out of Mohanpur P.S. Case no. 124/2001. Shahid Hassan (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.