Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3157 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Gyanti Devi, 2. Motilal Mahto, 3. Varun Kumar alias Varun Mahto, 4. Sujit Mahto alias Sujit Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being grand father, mother and younger brother of the husband are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim within one and half years of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that in fact the husband performed love marriage and hence, there was no occasion for the petitioners of demanding dowry. Considering the fact that the accusation is against the husband and learned counsel for the petitioners undertakes that the husband will surrender within six weeks, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3157 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Teraiya P.S. Case No. 120 /2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The learned court below will accept the bail bonds of the petitioners only on surrender of the husband. Anil/- (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.