Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43474 of 2011 ====================================================== Ashok Yadav son of Krishna Kumar Yadav Vill Ram Nagar PS Bhaptiahi Supaul .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 5 24-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Kishanpur P.S. Case No. 80 of 2011 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is an admitted relationship between the deceased and one Upendra Singh and the only connection with the present petitioner is that the lady deceased was a tenant in the house of this petitioner. The dead body of the deceased has been found in suspicious circumstances and there is no materials connecting this petitioner with the alleged occurrence. Regard being had to the submissions of learned counsel, let the petitioner namely, Ashok Yadav be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul in connection with Kishanpur P.S. Case No.80 of 2011. Bibhash/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.