Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24528 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Rai & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents and brothers of husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two years of marriage for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband of deceased who as per learned counsel for the petitioners shall surrender within six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order, let the petitioners, Sanjay Rai, Mukesh Rai, Bishun Rai, Ram Ishwar Rai and Samundri Devi be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24528 of 2012 (2) dt.20-07-2012 2 / 2 2 from today in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No. 62 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Vaishali at Hajipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted by the learned court below on surrender of husband of the deceased. U.K./- (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.