Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35595 of 2010 ===================================================== 1. Bipin Kumar @ Kaushlendra Kumar, son of Chandra Kishore Sharma alias Brij Kishore Sharma. 2. Deepu Kumar alias Ravi Shekhar Kumar Anand, son of Chandra Kishore Sharma alias Brij Kishore Sharma. 3. Bimla Devi, wife of Chandra Kishore Sharma alias Brij Kishore Sharma. 4. Chandra Kishore Sharma alias Brij Kishroe Sharma, son of Late Charandeep Singh. All resident of village-Rampur, P.S. Makhdumpur, District- Jehanabad. .... .... Petitioners. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. Sri Indradeo Sharma, son of Late Rameshwar Sharma, village + P.O. Mushi, P.S. Tekari, District-Gaya. .... .... Opposite Parties. ===================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJENDRA KUMAR MISHRA ORAL ORDER ------------ 8 11-12-2012 Heard. This application, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, has been filed on behalf of the petitioners for quashing the order dated 30.4.2010 passed in Ghosi P.S. Case No.254 of 2009/Trial No.2982 of 2010 by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad, taking cognizance of the offence under [STATUTE] against the petitioners. Apparently, I find no illegality in the impugned order amounting to abuse of the process of the court. Accordingly, this application stands dismissed. However, the petitioners would be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35595 of 2010 (8) dt.11-12-2012 2 / 2 2 at liberty to raise all the points, as raised herein, either at the time of framing of charge or at the appropriate stage in the trial court. P.S./- (Rajendra Kumar Mishra, 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.