Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11470 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11470 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Anandi Paswan S/O Late Jaga Paswan 2. Kalasia Devi W/O Anandi Paswan 3. Muni Lal Paswan S/O Anandi Paswan 4. Shaila Devi W/O Muni Lal Paswan All residents of Village-Jarangi, P.S.Vaishali, Distt-Vaishali .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners, who are father-in-law, mother-in- law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law of the deceased, Pinki Devi, apprehend their arrest in a case under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there is nothing in the case diary to show that any one has ever seen the petitioners assaulting the deceased. Learned counsel further submits that there was some dispute between the husband and the wife and on account of which she drowned herself. The petitioners submit that the husband of the deceased is already in custody. Learned counsel submits that even charge-sheet has not been submitted under [STATUTE] . In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11470 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 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 eight weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Vaishali (Belsar O.P.) P.S. case no. 193 of 2011, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of Cr.P.C. Uday/- (Samarendra Pratap 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.