Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18201 of 2012 (5) dt.22-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 18201 of 2012 ====================================================== Lal Mohar Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 5 22-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail in a case under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that three persons fired including the petitioner causing injury on the abdomen of the father of the informant. However, it is alleged that the dead body was dragged and drown in the river but the dead body was not recovered. It is further alleged that after some day the head of the deceased was found and there is no material to suggest how the head of the victim was found. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and the fact that the nature of allegation is omnibus, the petitioner above named is ordered to 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran, Chapra in connection with Doriganj P. S. Case No. 108 of 2011. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.