Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22381 of 2012 (4) dt.19-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22381 of 2012 ========================================== Upendra Yadav, son of Chaliter Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ======================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 4 19-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. This application has been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner who has been made an accused in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 16/2012 pending before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Naugachia, for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is one of the named accused in this case on information received through one Bijay Singh about abduction of informant’s son whose dead body was subsequently recovered three days after institution of the case based on alleged extra judicial confession of the petitioner. Submission is of false implication and there is nothing to indicate recovery of dead body of alleged extra judicial confession which is full of contradiction and errors. But, the eye witness claiming to see petitioner and others abducting the deceased and also corroborated the same during investigation. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, for the present, prayer of regular bail of the petitioner is hereby rejected. Simultaneously, court below is directed to proceed expeditiously and avoid undue delay and adjournment. Rajeev/- (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.