Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26425 of 2012 ====================================================== Arti Singh @ Arti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 09-08-2012 The present application has been listed before this Court in view of the order dated 11.07.2012 passed by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court and administrative order of Hon’ble the Chief Justice dated 18.07.2012. The petitioner being the brother’s wife of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after one year of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner’s earlier anticipatory bail application was permitted to be withdrawn vide order dated 22.11.2011 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 30146 of 2011. Now the prayer for anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26425 of 2012 (3) dt.09-08-2012 2/2 has been renewed on the ground that earlier the counsel has no instruction that the husband of the victim is in custody and the Title Suit No. 656 of 2010 is pending between the husband of the victim and petitioner’s husband, which suggests that the petitioner was separate from the husband of the victim. This Court is not inclined to take a different view, but considering the contentions, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Bikramganj P.S. Case No. 55 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.