Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.485 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Singh @ Shambhu Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 06-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that at the petitioner’s house some party was going on and when the deceased Ajit Kumar was returning after attending the party, he was dashed by the truck. Subsequently, a mob of three hundred persons put the truck on fire and killed the driver. It is further alleged that the petitioner and his family members participated in the burning of the truck and killing the deceased. Considering the accusation being general in nature, accused Vicky Kumar Pandit has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 26467 of 2011. I see no reason for the leaned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner and, preferably, dispose of the bail application of the petitioner in case he surrenders and prays for bail within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Phulwarisharif P.S. Case no. 191 of 2011 pending in the court of J.M. Ist Class, Patna. Let this order be communicated to the court concerned through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. 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.