Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37144 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Devlata Devi @ Dewalata Devi 2. Brajesh Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner no. 2 being the husband of the victim and petitioner no. 1 being the mother of petitioner no. 2 are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after one and half years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the father-in-law of the victim has been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 116 of 2011 when the informant has not supported the prosecution case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37144 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 2/2 named petitioner no. 1 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Saran at Chapra in connection with Ekma P.S. Case No. 156 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of petitioner no. 2 keeping in view of the fact that one of the accused has been acquitted, preferably on the same day, if petitioner no. 2 surrenders before the learned court below within a period of eight weeks from today. With the aforesaid observation, the application of petitioner no. 2 is disposed of. 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.