Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33066 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Indu Devi W/O Maheshwar Poddar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria 2. Seema Devi W/O Sanjeev Kumar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria 3. Ranju Devi W/O Pawan Poddar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 05-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are stated to be accused in a Police case under [STATUTE] . The victim is stated to have been married four years earlier and had a minor child of three years. As per the First Information Report she was burnt in her matrimonial home. The earlier application for anticipatory bail was withdrawn on 26.11.2008. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that subsequently the husband of the deceased and the father-in- law have been acquitted in the Sessions trial. The Court has been taken through the judgment of the sessions Court in a serious trial under [STATUTE] . The judgment is barely in one page, the rest only referring to the facts. The Court refrains from any Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33066 of 2012 (2) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 observations with regard to the same which may prejudice the petitioner. Suffice it to hold that on the own showing of the petitioner they fall in the category of absconder after the rejection of the earlier prayer for anticipatory bail. If they want the benefit of the acquittal, that is an aspect to be considered in regular bail only. The application is dismissed. P. Kumar/- (Navin Sinha, 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.