Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.352 of 2012 Pankaj Paswan @ Pankaj Kumar son of Shambhu Paswan, resident of village-Girdhar Chak, P.S.- Chandi (Vena), District-Nalanda. Versus The State of Bihar ------------ 2. 5.1.2012. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case instituted for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The prosecution case is that the son of the informant was throttled to death by three accused persons on 21.9.2009 and the accused persons also took away the dead body, which was recovered subsequently on 23.9.2009. Thereafter, the present case was instituted. It is submitted that similarly circumstanced co- accused Satrudhan Paswan has been granted bail by order dated 16.9.2010 passed in Cr.Misc. No.23996 of 2010 by another Bench of this court. Considering the facts and circumstance of the case, the petitioner named above is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Chandi (Vena) P.S. Case No.237 of 2009. Md.S. ( Ashwani 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.