Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1145 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Puja Kumari 2. Bibha Devi 3. Neelam Devi 4. Kranti Devi 5. Satya Narayan 6. Shiv Narayan. …. …. Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar …. …. Opposite Party 2 16-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The informant’s son went out of the house and did not return subsequently his dead body was recovered. The F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. From the order of Sessions Judge, it appears that against these petitioners, D.I.G. has only found the case under [STATUTE] . since they had knowledge about the occurrence but did not disclose about the same. Considering the circumstantial nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Begusarai Muffasil (Singhaul) P.S. Case No. 77/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on the undertaking that they will regularly co-operate in the investigation. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.