Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2531 of 2012 (2) dt.18-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2531 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Ram son of Sri Yogi Ram, R/o village- Pariauna, P.S.- Noorsarai, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Amit Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHYAM KISHORE SHARMA) 2 18-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 3 (2) (v) of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. The informant found her son Rahul Kumar aged 10 to be dead. The informant suspected the hands of the petitioner in the occurrence. Submission is that nobody has seen the occurrence and no motive has been assigned in the present case. For the first time the petitioner has been made accused in the present case. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2531 of 2012 (2) dt.18-01-2012 petitioner above named is directed to be released on furnishing of bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M./concerned Court, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Noorsarai P.S. Case No. 178 of 2011. avin/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, 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.