Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31039 of 2012 ====================================================== Bideshi Ram S/O Kuneshwar Ram R/O Village - Ghiwaha, P.S. Chhatapur, District - Supaul .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 02. 16-08-2012 Heard. This is petition for regular bail for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The F.I.R. is against unknown. The name of this petitioner transpires in the confessional statement of co-accused Naresh Ram. However, the said Naresh Ram was granted bail by order dated 21.06.2010 in Criminal Misc. No. 4623 of 2010 in which it has been specifically mentioned that there was no eye-witness to the occurrence. However, during investigation it had transpired that the deceased had attempted to commit rape upon the wife of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that only material against the petitioner is confessional statement of co- accused Naresh Ram. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31039 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2 case, let the petitioner above named 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 learned Adhoc Additional Sessions Judge-II, Supaul in connection with Sessions Trial No. 201 of 2011 arising out of Chhatapur P.S. Case No. 116 of 2009. S.Sb/- (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.