Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15280 of 2012 (4) dt.11-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15280 of 2012 ====================================================== Irfan @ Md. Irfan son of late Md.Mustafa, resident of village-Pashchhimi Gharari, P.S.-Kharik, Dist.-Bhagalpur (Bihar) .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 11-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . It is contended that the petitioner is not named in the first information report and his name transpired in course of investigation. By order dated 14.5.2012 case diary was called for in this case. Referring to several paragraphs of the case diary, learned counsel for the State submits that the petitioner actively participated in eliminating the deceased. Considering the serious nature of allegation, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail is rejected. 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.