Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22862 of 2012 (3) dt.04-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22862 of 2012 ========================================= 1. Krishna Ballabh Sharma, son of Late Rajnandan Sharma 2. Kiran Devi, wife of Jitendra Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ========================================= CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 04-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. This application has been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioners who have been made an accused in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioners are named accused in this case instituted on recovery of dead body of informants nephew lying in old kitchen of the Hostel wherein he was residing for studies. Submission is of false implication except suspicion due to alleged sweet-relationship with the daughter of petitioner no. 2 who was also residing in another Hostel for studies. There is absolutely nothing against the petitioners. More so, as is evident from the impugned order dated 29.3.2012 deceased was last seen with co-named accused Ashok Kumar Yadav who had already been released on bail by a Bench of this court vide order dated 4.6.2012 passed in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22862 of 2012 (3) dt.04-09-2012 Cr. Misc. No. 15251/2012. Further, petitioners have no criminal antecedent. If, it is so, Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioners be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna City, in connection with Bahadurpur P.S. Case No. 109/2011, with a condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case, in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.