Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41666 of 2012 (2) dt.04-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41666 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jitu Das S/O Bhikhar Das Resident Of Village- Pipra Khem, P.S.- Kalyanpur, District- East Champaran, Motihari 2. Surendra Das S/O Bhikhar Das Resident Of Village- Pipra Khem, P.S.- Kalyanpur, District- East Champaran, Motihari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the petitioners were residing outside the state and was not aware of the involvement in the present case. It is further submitted that one Bhikhar Das has been acquitted vide S.T. No. 8 of 2003. In view of the fact that other accused has been acquitted, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners in case the petitioners surrender within six weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41666 of 2012 (2) dt.04-12-2012 from today in connection with Kalyanpur P.S. Case no. 36 of 2002 pending in the court of learned C.J.M., East Champaran, Motihari. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioners. Anil/- (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.