Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37719 of 2011 (3) dt.06-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37719 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Jai Kishun Pandit S/o Late Bisar Pandit. 2. Gena Devi, W/o Jai Kishun Pandit. 3. Gagan Pandit, S/o Jai Kishun Pandit. All resident of Village- Naurangia, P.S. Madhuban, District- East Champaran at Motihari. 4. Kailash Pandit, S/o Sukan Pandit, resident of Village- Sahwazpur, P.S. Shyampur Bhathan, District- Sheohar. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 123 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] . These petitioners are father-in-law, mother-in-law, dewar and distant relation of the husband of the victim. There is allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty and death by hanging the victim and dead body has been disposed of. Leaned counsel for the petitioners submits that there is specific allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty against the husband of the victim and the husband is in jail custody. However, in the case diary there is only general and omnibus allegation of demand and subjecting cruelty against these Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37719 of 2011 (3) dt.06-04-2012 petitioners. Under the facts and circumstances of the case, the above named petitioners in the event of their arrest/surrender within a period of four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikarahna at Motihari, in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 123 of 2011, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of Cr.P.C. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.