Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.194 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahendra Sah & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 12-04-2012 Petitioners being brothers and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the sister of the informant within two years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand and disposing of the dead body without informing the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners were separate from the husband and the victim actually died due to the diarrhoea and information was given to the informant’s side. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.194 of 2012 (4) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners, is in custody, let the petitioners namely 1. Mahendra Sah 2. Suresh Sah @ Suresh Saw 3. Indradeo Sah 4. Manju Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing 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, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Raghopur P.S. Case No. 62 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.