Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38730 of 2011 (4) dt.06-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38730 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Lal Mohan Vishwakarma . 2. Upendra Mistry. 3. Surendra Mistry. 4. Vidhayak Mistry. 5. Ravindra Mistry. All sons of Krishna Mistry, resident of Village- Manjhaiwan, P.S. Kurtha (Manikpur), District- Arwal. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 4 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 49 of 2010 registered under [STATUTE] . These petitioners are Vaishur and Dewar of the deceased. There is only one eye witness who is a ten years old boy and in his statement he has stated that his mother has been assaulted by all accused persons including these petitioners by iron rod. However, injury report found ligature mark over neck death is said to be strangulation. He has further stated that his mother was hanging and accused persons assaulted. However, there is no other evidence. Under the facts and circumstances of the case, the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38730 of 2011 (4) dt.06-04-2012 named petitioners in the event of their arrest/surrender within a period of four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad, in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 49 of 2010, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of Cr.P.C. with a further condition that petitioners shall cooperate with the police during investigation and if charge sheet is submitted against these petitioners and any incriminating material found against these petitioners, then petitioners shall surrender and pray for regular bail m.p. (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.