Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32564 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Yadav @ Chhotu Mistri @ Chhotu Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.33633 of 2012 ====================================================== Pradeep Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 08-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case initially registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . when subsequently [STATUTE] . was also added. Informant’s driver along with auto-rickshaw went missing when the First Information Report was lodged against auto-rickshaw driver Badri Ram when subsequently the dead body of the victim was recovered. Petitioners were not named in the F.I.R. but their names sprang up on confession of the co- accused Naresh Yadav who admitted that the petitioners assisted in dismantling the auto-rickshaw. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that even as per confession of Naresh Yadav, there is no accusation of killing the victim and except confession of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32564 of 2012 (3) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Naresh Yadav, there is nothing against the petitioners. The statements have been made in para 10 and 23 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai(Kabaiya) P.S. Case No. 121 of 2012. 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.