Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2248 of 2012 (2) dt.24-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2248 of 2012 ====================================================== Hema Devi & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 24-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the D. P. Act. Petitioner no. 1 is married sister of the husband whereas petitioner no. 2 is brother-in-law (Sala) of brother of husband. The accusation is of demand of dowry and killing the victim. The informant in the opening line of the F.I.R. has admitted that the marriage was performed 10 years prior to occurrence. Considering the relationship of petitioners with the husband particularly in view of suspicious nature of accusation, let the petitioners, Hema Devi and Gabbar Mandal @ Dharmvir Mandal, be released on bail in the event Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2248 of 2012 (2) dt.24-01-2012 of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Belhar P.S. Case No. 53 of 2011 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. Banka, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.