Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4499 of 2012 ====================================================== Suresh Tiwari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-02-2012 Petitioner is languishing in custody since 18.11.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against petitioner Subhash Tiwari, Uday Tiwari, Bikrama Tiwari and others to have made assault to the deceased. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has been chargesheeted only in November, 2011, whereas similarly situated accused Subash Tiwari and Udayee Tiwary have been granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 49533 of 2006 and Cr. Misc. No. 45029 of 2006. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Suresh Tiwari, be released on bail on furnishing bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4499 of 2012 (2) dt.15-02-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Paharpur(Malahi) P.S. Case No. 43 of 2006, Trial No. 4789 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.