Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35080 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 08-11-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3 of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that informant’s younger brother was working as cleaner in the truck of the petitioner when the victim went to collect his wages. Subsequently the informant was informed that his brother was met with an accident and when he went there, he found the dead body with no injury and the people conveyed that no accident has taken place when it was alleged that for the wage dispute the brother of the informant has been killed. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that when the victim was changing the tire of the truck, the jack could not worked properly, when postmortem Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35080 of 2012 (3) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 report reflects one crushing injury on the chest and there is no eye witness to the occurrence when only suspicion has been raised against the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the State that dead body was kept in the room which creates suspicion against the petitioner when learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that the dead body was kept in an abandoned hotel near the place of occurrence. A statement has been made in para 24 of the petition that petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Ravi Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Barbigha P.S. Case No. 147 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.