Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19619 of 2012 ====================================================== Mritunjay Singh @ Mirtunjay Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner has renewed his prayer for anticipatory bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] in connection with Basantpur P.S. Case No. 32 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. The bail was rejected on the ground that during investigation it transpires that the victim was killed in the poultry form of this petitioner. The prayer has been renewed on the ground that there is no direct evidence to the effect that the victim was killed in the poultry form and on the basis of hearsay statement other accused has been granted anticipatory bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19619 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 2/2 This Court is not inclined to revise its earlier order, but considering the aforesaid submissions and in view of the fact that other accused has been granted anticipatory bail, it is a fit case for regular bail if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.