Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35890 of 2011 (4) dt.09-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35890 of 2011 ====================================================== Bhola Mandal @ Ajay Mandal, son of Suresh Mandal. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 4 09-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for State. Petitioner is in jail custody in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Petitioner is not named in the first information report but in course of investigation the father of the so called deceased claimed to have identified the dead body on the basis of saree of the deceased and the aforesaid witness stated that deceased might have been killed by the petitioner as he wanted to get rid from her. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the deceased was residing at her native place and as a matter of fact, she was mentally retarded lady and after four months of recovery of the dead body, the father of the deceased made the above stated statement. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case as well as submission of the parties, let the petitioner above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35890 of 2011 (4) dt.09-02-2012 named be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Amarpur P.S. Case No. 179 of 2009. Md. Ibrarul/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.