Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24928 of 2012 (2) dt.13-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 24928 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajendra Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail in a case under [STATUTE] . The only material against the petitioner is of last seen as it is alleged in the First Information Report that seven persons came and asked the husband of the informant to accompany them. It is further alleged that the husband of the informant went with them as usual and it is alleged that one Ragendra Yadav informed the informant about death of her husband by telephone and that the dead body of the victim is lying in the Bhukol Hill. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case that there is no eye-witness to the occurrence and the case hinges on the circumstantial evidence, the chain of circumstance does not complete and the charge-sheet has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24928 of 2012 (2) dt.13-07-2012 submitted, the petitioner above named is ordered to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Sangrampur (Tetia Bumber) P. S. Case No. 54 of 2010. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.