Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5943 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dinesh Choudhary S/O Late Budhali Choudhary R/O Village- Katari Hill Gaya, P.S.- Chandauti, At District- Gaya. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 09-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . According to the prosecution case the victim was seen in the company of Ajay when subsequently the dead body was recovered from the house of petitioner Dinesh Choudhary. The petitioner Manoj Chaudhary and others were found on the place from where the dead body was recovered. It appears that at their instance the dead body was recovered and considering the same Mukesh Choudhary and Lalita Devi, the wife of petitioner Dinesh Choudhary have been granted bail and the case of petitioner Dinesh Choudhary is not distinguishable from the accusation levelled against Lalita Devi, who has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5943 of 2012 (2) dt.09-02-2012 2/2 granted bail vide Cr. 40031 of 2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the dead body was recovered from the half constructed house of the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Dinesh Choudhary, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C. II, Gaya in connection with Sessions Trial No. 68 of 2011 arising out of Chandauti P.S. Case No. 31 of 2011. 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.