Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34899 of 2011 (3) dt.30-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34899 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Dilip Kumar Singh @ Dilip Singh, son of Late Sheoji Singh 2. Sanjay Rai, S/o – Raghubir Rai 3. Manoj Rai, S/o – Vishwanath Rai 4. Laxuman Rai, S/o – Late Vilashi Rai 5. Chandeshwar Rai @ Chandra Shekhar Rai, S/o – Late Deo Sharan Rai 6. Chhote Singh @ Om Prakash Sharma, S/o – Late Dharmnath Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA) 3 30-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioners apprehending their arrest in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 80/2011 for offences under [STATUTE] and 136, 1714(E), 171(F) of the R.P. Act, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. Earlier vide order dated 11.11.2011, this application was disposed off as withdrawn with respect to petitioner nos. 2 and 6. Learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission to withdraw this application with respect to rest of the petitioners, as submitted, they have been surrendered before the court below. Permission is granted. Accordingly, this application stands disposed off as withdrawn. 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.