Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30254 of 2012 ====================================================== Radhika Devi & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The informant’s daughter went outside and did not return when the informant came to know that his daughter went to the neighbour’s house and talked for some time and while she was returning she went missing when the missing report was lodged on 05.04.2012 but subsequently suspicion has been raised against these petitioners when dead body was recovered from the well of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that except suspicion there is nothing against the petitioners and investigation with regard to other accused has already been concluded Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30254 of 2012 (3) dt.05-10-2012 2 / 2 2 but investigation against the petitioners is going on. It is further submitted that other accused Animesh Kumar @ Animesh @ Ramjee and Ravi @ Ravi Ranjan @ Ravi Ranjan Kumar @ Munna Singh have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 33687 of 2012 by this Court. It is expected that the regular bail of the petitioners shall be disposed off preferably on the same day. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners Radhika Devi, Pammi Kumari and Laxman Kumar if they surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Naubatpur P.S. Case No. 81 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned A.C.J.M., Danapur, Patna. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.