Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36269 of 2011 ====================================================== 1.Manoj Mandal, Son of Muktinath Mandal. 2.Dinesh Rai, Son of Sri Shiv Rai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA) 3 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary up to paragraph – 96 dated 24/10/2011. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Falka (Pothia) P.S. Case No. 24 of 2011 for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] , pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar. After some arguments, learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission to withdraw this application with a liberty to surrender before the court below within a fortnight for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36269 of 2011 (3) dt.23-01-2012 2 / 2 2 a prayer of regular bail, which shall be considered on its own merit without being prejudiced of instant withdrawal. Permission is granted. Accordingly, this application stands disposed of as withdrawn. As prayed for by learned counsel for the petitioners, learned court below may dispose of the case preferably on the same day. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.