Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8322 of 2012 ====================================================== Chunchun Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 07.01.2012 in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . When dead body of the husband of informant was recovered from the pond with blood injury, F.I.R. was lodged. The suspicion has been raised against the petitioner that since the deceased was a witness against the petitioner who was an accused in a case under [STATUTE] . Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the petitioner above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Nawada, in connection with Nawada Mufassil Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8322 of 2012 (2) dt.20-03-2012 2 / 2 2 P.S. Case No. 149 of 2011. The petitioner will file an undertaking on affidavit before the learned court below that he will co-operate in investigation and the said undertaking be transmitted to the concerned Investigating Officer of the present case. Non co-operation by the petitioner in investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of bail of petitioner. U.K./- (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.