Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3631 of 2012 ====================================================== Israil Nadaf & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Petitioners were not named in the F.I.R. but subsequently in exercise of power under Section 319 Cr.P.C. petitioners have been summoned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that other similarly situated accused have been granted bail in the matter. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Israil Nadaf 2. Muniya Nadaf @ Munaiyr Nadaf @ Munna Nadaf, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3631 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge, Sitamarhi in connection with Bathanaha P.S. Case No. 07 of 2008, Sessions Trial No. 239 of 2008/88 of 2010. Learned Trial Court will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioners if the petitioners fail to appear on two consecutive ocassions. 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.