Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13728 of 2012 ====================================================== Kaju Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Amarpur P.S. Case No. 130 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka. It is alleged that Ajay Chaudhary took away the victim from the house of the informant in the night but he did not return, subsequently when the informant went to enquire, the petitioner abused and assaulted the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the thrust of the accusation is against Anay Chaudhary and other accused Ram Charitra Choudhary has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 26297 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13728 of 2012 (2) dt.17-04-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.