Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13629 of 2012 ====================================================== Krishna Sao .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-05-2012 Petitioner being father of the husband of the deceased is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant and her two children after five years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is general accusation against all the family members including the petitioner when the petitioner used to reside at Delhi and was separate from the husband. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband who as per learned counsel for the petitioner has already surrendered, let the petitioner namely Krishna Sao, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13629 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 2 / 2 2 released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Makhdumpur P.S. Case No. 389 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.