Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1300 of 2012 ====================================================== Satish Rai S/O Jai Narain Ray R/O Danapur ( Daldali Road ), P.S. Danapur, Distt. - Patna .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 02/ 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 02.12.2010 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that three days prior to the occurrence there was some fight between the parties, when the victim lastly went in the company of Rakesh but did not return. In the confession of co-accused the name of the petitioner has surfaced as the person involved in the occurrence. Considering the circumstantial nature of the accusation, let the petitioner namely Satish Rai, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1300 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2/2 of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur (Patna) in connection with Danapur P.S. Case No. 260 of 2010. 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.