Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37185 of 2012 ====================================================== Reena Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of assaulting the son of the informant on accusation of committing theft of mobile of Rina Devi and disposing of the dead body. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation the evidence has come that the victim himself consumed poison. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of eight weeks from today in connection with Baniapur P.S. Case No. 149 of 2012 pending in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37185 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 2/2 court of learned CJM, Saran at Chapra. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the bail application of the petitioner preferably on the same day. 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 petitioner. 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.