Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25605 of 2011 (2) dt.23-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25605 of 2011 ====================================================== Ashok Jamadar @ Ashok Mehtar @ Ashok Jamadar Mehtar, son of late Bideshi Mehtar, resident of Mohalla-Madhubani Murgi Farm, P.S. K. Hat, District- Purnea. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shekhar Kuamr Singh, advocate. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Umesh Lal Verma, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHIVAJI PANDEY ORAL ORDER 2 23-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This application has been filed for quashing the order dated 28.6.2011 passed in K. Nagar P.S. Case No. 17 of 2010 by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea by which he has taken cognizance against the petitioner under [STATUTE] . After some argument, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this application with a liberty to raise all the points at the appropriate stage of trial. This application is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty. Vinay/- (Shivaji Pandey, J) Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25605 of 2011 (2) dt.23-08-2012

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.