Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17195 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bhagiya Devi 2. Amit Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.21059 of 2012 ====================================================== Raman Kumar Raman @ Roben Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-06-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . On recovery of the dead body of the victim the F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. The name of the petitioners subsequently sprang up during investigation and in the 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the witnesses. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that after much delay of lodging of the case, only suspicion has been raised by the witnesses when co-accused Rita Devi has been granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 36276 of 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the name privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17195 of 2012 (2) dt.18-06-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Singheshwar P.S. Case No. 19 of 2011, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.