Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33819 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Md. Azad son of Md. .Ishaque, R/o Village- Bariyarpur, West P.S Khodawandpur, District- Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shamaneshwaram, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 4. 24-02-2012. Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Khodawandpur P.S.Case No.50 of 2010 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] and subsequently [STATUTE] were added to the set of allegation. The allegation against this petitioner is of taking the son of the informant on 26.4.2010 along with other accused named in the FIR and whereafter the son of the informant went traceless and his dead body was found brutally assaulted near the river. It is alleged that the cause of the occurrence is the relationship between the deceased and the daughter of accused Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33819 of 2011 (4) dt.24-02-2012 2 2 Md. Ishaque. Considering the circumstances and the allegation, no case for indulgence is made out. The application is dismissed. ahk/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.