Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16717 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16717 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bindeshwari Singh, 2. Anar Devi, 3. Pankaj Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 The learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make necessary correction in the petition, as prayed for. Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents of the husband and husband himself are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after seven years of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that on the own admission of the informant to the effect that the marriage was performed seven years prior to the occurrence, the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] . Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16717 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 petitioner nos. 1 and 2 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Narpatganj P.S. Case No. 289 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. So far as petitioner no. 3 is concerned, since he is husband of the deceased, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to him. However, considering the fact that the death has taken place after seven years of the marriage, the accusation appears to be doubtful. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of petitioner no. 3 in case he surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with the aforementioned case pending in the court of C.J.M., Araria. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. 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.