Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40526 of 2011 (3) dt.10-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40526 of 2011 ====================================================== Raju Kamti .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 10.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. P.P. for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 6.2.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Initially, case was registered against one Meena Devi and Prayag Kamti and in course of investigation, aforesaid Meena Devi confessed her guilt disclosing the manner in which the deceased was killed and further she disclosed that this petitioner also played an important role in committing the murder of the deceased. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no doubt, aforesaid co-accused Meena Devi has already been convicted but her appeal is pending before this court and except confessional statement of co-accused Meena Devi, there appears to be nothing against the petitioner who is in jail custody since long. Considering the above stated facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Raju Kamti, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Fast Track Court No. IV, Darbhanga in Sessions Trial no. 205/2011 arising out of Manigachhi P.S. Case no. 121/2006 subject to the condition that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40526 of 2011 (3) dt.10-02-2012 petitioner shall attend the learned trial court in person on each and every date for the period of nine months or till disposal of the case and if he fails to do so on two consecutive dates without any reasonable explanation, the learned trial court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.