Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10664 of 2012 (3) dt.30-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10664 of 2012 ====================================================== Manish Kumar @ Kintu Kumar, son of late Lalan Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 30-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. This application has been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner who is in custody in connection with Sessions Trial No. 36/2011/13/2011 arising out of Parasbigha P.S. Case No. 13/2005, pending in the court of A.D.J., F.T.C.-IV, Jehanabad, for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is one of the named accused in this seven years old case with allegation that missing son of the informant was called by the petitioner with the help of others and dead body was found from the house of the petitioner wherein he was residing and concealed in the ditch near the house. Submission is of false implication on mere Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10664 of 2012 (3) dt.30-04-2012 suspicion. Petitioner appears recently remanded in this case from custody of another case and trial has already commenced. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, for the present, prayer of regular bail of the petitioner is hereby rejected. Simultaneously, trial court is directed to proceed expeditiously and avoid undue adjournment and delay. Rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.