Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34314 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34314 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Yogendra Rai S/O Late Gaju Rai R/O Ahmedpur, Bariarpur P.S. Rajapakar, District- Vaishali. 2. Satya Narain Rai S/O Yogendra Rai R/O Ahmedpur, Bariarpur P.S. Rajapakar, District- Vaishali. 3. Ratni Devi W/O Yogendra Rai R/O Ahmedpur, Bariarpur P.S. Rajapakar, District- Vaishali. 4. Birju Rai S/O Gajendra Rai R/O Ahmedpur, Bariarpur P.S. Rajapakar, District- Vaishali. 5. Puspa Devi @ Pusa Devi W/O Satya Narain Rai. R/O Ahmedpur, Bariarpur P.S. Rajapakar, District- Vaishali. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents, brother, brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within few months of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the accusation is omnibus and general in nature when inlaws have been granted anticipatory bail till conclusion of the investigation vide Cr. Misc. No. 43933 of 2011. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34314 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband of the victim, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Rajapakar P.S. Case No. 73 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. and if the charge sheet is submitted against the petitioners then they shall surrender and pray for regular bail. 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.