Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27487 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sita Devi 2. Dharam Nath Sahni. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of the marriage when the dead body was recovered in pieces. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant has retracted from the initial version. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners, if the petitioners Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27487 of 2012 (3) dt.14-09-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Paru P.S. Case No. 207 of 2007 pending in the court of learned CJM, Muzaffarpur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.