Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41322 of 2011 1. Md. Jawed S/O Ebaduzzahwan @ Badal @ Badua Resident Of Village- Laruara, P.S.- Muffasil, District- Begusarai. 2. Md. Hidayatullah Hidua S/O Ebaduzzahwan @ Badal @ Badua Resident Of Village- Laruara, P.S.- Muffasil, District- Begusarai. --------Petitioners. Versus The State of Bihar -----Opposite Party ********* 02. 03.01.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioners, apprehending their arrest in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 211/2011 for offences under [STATUTE] . In this case instituted against unknown. Petitioners’ name emerged during investigation only on some suspicion. Investigation is still going on. Submission is of false implication without any material and further petitioners having clean antecedent. If, it is so, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks, conclusion of investigation/submission of charge-sheet, let the above- named petitioners be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of sum of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai, in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 211/2011, subject to condition under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and additional condition to attend the court regularly till conclusion of investigation/submission of charge-sheet, in the event of failure on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable explanation, the privilege granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. 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.