Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35632 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35632 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Safina Khatoon @ Safiya Prabin 2. Md. Amin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Subesh Sharma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Anand Mohan Mehta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s son Imtiyaz used to reside with these petitioners, who are brother and brother’s wife of informant but one day the petitioners informed the informant that his son has been killed by someone. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there was no motive alleged for killing when it is admitted fact that the victim was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35632 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 killed in the house of the petitioners. In the circumstances, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 152 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Saharsa. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. It is submitted that there is no eye witness to the occurrence and in that background, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners without being prejudiced by the order of this Court. 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.