Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36153 of 2011 ====================================================== Arun Singh , Son of Shri Dashrath Singh, Resident of Village +P.O. – Wolipur, P.S. – Pipariya, District – Lakhisarai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR) 2 27-01-2012 None appeared on behalf of the petitioner either to press the petition or to make a prayer for adjournment. Heard Sri Madan Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor. The present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, has been preferred for quashing of an order dated 13.04.2010 passed by learned Additional District & Sessions Judge , Fast Track Court IInd, Lakhisarai, in Sessions Trial No. 189 of 2010 arising out of Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 13 of 2006. Perusal of the record indicates that in Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 13 of 2006, Police after investigation had submitted charge sheet for the offence under [STATUTE] against the accused persons. It further appears from the impugned order that this court in Cr. Misc. No. 31621 of 2009 had issued direction to conclude the trial within nine months. After perusing the impugned order, I Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36153 of 2011 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2 / 2 2 do not find any defect in the same. The petition stands dismissed. Let a copy of this order be communicated to the court below forthwith. Praful/- (Rakesh Kumar, 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.