Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45088 of 2011 1. Ragho Sharan Tiwari, son of Late Awadhesh Tiwari 2. Buchun Devi, wife of Ragho Sharan Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 06.01.2012 Petitioners being parents of the F.I.R. named accused Pawan Tiwari are languishing in custody since 19.06.2011 in connection with a case initially registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . subsequently [STATUTE] . was added on recovery of the dead body of the informant’s son. It is alleged that son of the informant went in the company of the Pawan Tiwari who happens to be the son of the petitioners. Petitioners were not named in the F.I.R. but subsequently their name transpired during investigation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner No. 1 is aged about 75 years and his half body is paralyzed and the doctor has given his opinion that he is not even in a position to discharge his daily routine functions. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the Pawan Tiwari, let the petitioners above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge-IV, Saran at Chapra in connection with Sessions Trial No. 786 of 2011. Shageer ( 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.