Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12360 of 2012 (2) dt.12-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12360 of 2012 ====================================================== Anuragani .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the brother of the deceased that on 12.5.2011 the dead body of the brother of the informant was being seen carried in an Auto Rickshaw by the petitioner and others. The informant suspected that the victim has been killed by the petitioner and other family members. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim died due to illness and he was admitted in PMCH and was cremated on the usual place of cremation at Bansghat and only for pressurizing the petitioner not to claim share in property, the present case has been lodged by the informant. Informant himself has admitted that he saw the accused persons taking the dead body on 12.5.2011 for which complaint was filed on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12360 of 2012 (2) dt.12-04-2012 19.5.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 2.6.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the case which clouds the bonafide of the accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Hawai Adda P.S. Case No. 79 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.