Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18132 of 2011 (5) dt.23-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18132 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Saklendra Yadav 2. Bhagwat Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 5 23-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail in a case under [STATUTE] . The petitioners are not named in the First Information Report. However, after investigation the final form has been submitted and cognizance has been taken against the accused petitioners. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that cognizance has been taken against seven persons and warrant of arrest has been issued against the petitioners also. The other similarly situated co-accused persons, namely, Ramkhelawan Yadav @ Ramkhelawan Prasad and Birendra Yadav have been granted bail vide order dated 09.02.2010 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18132 of 2011 (5) dt.23-08-2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 41948 of 2009. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh, Patna in connection with Barh (Belchhi) P. S. Case No. 300 of 2000, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P. C. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.