Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.228 of 2012 ====================================================== Vikash Yadav @ Ramsawroop Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 16-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 26.07.2011 in connection with Dhibra P.S. Case No. 07 of 2009 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad. The prosecution case is that when the deceased was sitting at his door, the mob of extremists led by this petitioner came and took the victim to kill him. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that other similarly situated accused person Vijay Yadav has been grated bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 11623 of 2010. It appears from the order that considering the clean antecedent, Vijay Yadav has been granted bail, whereas the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.228 of 2012 (3) dt.16-03-2012 2/ 2 petitioner has serious criminal antecedent, hence this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for bail is rejected. Amrendra/- (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.