Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12392 of 2012 (2) dt.11-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12392 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Singh .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.13988 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jhabbar Singh @ Gabbar Singh, 2. Baccha Singh, 3. Nageshwar Singh, 4. Ramji Singh, 5. Mini Devi & 6. Vinita Kumari .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault by eight persons. During investigation the accusation was found false and final form was submitted but the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra differing with the final form, took cognizance in the matter. Considering the fact that the accusation was found false during investigation, let the above named seven petitioners in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12392 of 2012 (2) dt.11-04-2012 the two petitions, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran, Chapra in Baniapur P.S.case No.86 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.