Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17801 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Hiramuni Devi 2. Gita Devi 3. Guddu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 14-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within few months of the marriage and disposing of the dead body. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim died due to the illness and the informant has retracted from his initial version. It appears that other accused Nirmal Singh has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 5406 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17801 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 2/2 2012, I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ara (M) (Dhobaha O.P.) P.S. Case No. 199 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara. 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.