Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23352 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shashi Yadav 2. Baman Yadav 3. Umesh Yadav 4. Siyasaran Yadav 5. Laldeo Yadav 6. Shanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 06-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the brothers, cousin, brother’s wife and the father of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that since the victim was protesting against the sale of the land by the father of the husband she was being killed after ten years of the marriage and the dead body was disposed of in spite of the objection being raised by the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation is not specific and the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23352 of 2012 (3) dt.06-11-2012 2/2 independent witnesses between paragraphs 13 to 15 of the case diary have said that the victim committed suicide. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 twelve 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 CJM, Jehanabad in connection with Ghosi P.S. Case No. 35 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.