Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35817 of 2012 (3) dt.18-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35817 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Urmia Devi 2. Uday Rai @ Uday Kumar Singh 3. Ravi Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parents and the 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 five years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation is not specific and the victim was provided medical assistance but on way to hospital she died when she was suffering from diarrhoea even it is submitted by learned counsel for the informant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35817 of 2012 (3) dt.18-12-2012 that the victim was assaulted by the entire in-laws family and the dead body was cremated without giving information to the informant. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, who, as per learned counsel for the petitioners, is in custody, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned ACJM, Danapur, District - Patna in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 76 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.