Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43407 of 2011 (2) dt.27-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43407 of 2011 ====================================================== Sarita Devi wife of Brahmdeo Bind .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sudish Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Kr. Birendra Narayan, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH) 2. 27.1.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Considering that the petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased and there is no specific overt act alleged against her, let the petitioner above named be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of four weeks from today in connection with Barbigha P.S. case No.126 of 2011 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Sheikhpura, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as also conditions (i) That one of the bailor will be a close relative of the petitioner who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43407 of 2011 (2) dt.27-01-2012 how he is related with the petitioner. The bailor will undertake to furnish information to the Court about any change in address of the petitioner, (ii) That the petitioner will give an undertaking that she will receive the police papers on the given date and be present on date fixed for charge and if she fails to do so on two given dates and delays the trial in any manner, her bail will be liable to be cancelled for reasons of misuse, (iii) That the petitioner will be well represented on each date if she fails to do so on two consecutive dates, her bail will be liable to be cancelled. Narendra/ ( Anjana Prakash, 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.