Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.466 of 2012 1. Binod Mahto, 2. Priya Devi, 3. Arjun Mahto, 4. Sunita Devi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 12.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents and brother of the wife of the husband, are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed three years prior to the occurrence. It is alleged that the demand for dowry was made and due to non-fulfillment of the same, the torture was inflicted. It appears that the informant came to know about the occurrence on 15.4.2011 itself but the FIR was lodged on 2.7.2011 and subsequently, the informant retracted from his original version and filed a petition to that effect in the court below. In view of the retracted version of the informant, let the above named petitioners be released on bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M. Sikrahana, 2 East Champaran in Patahi P.S. Case no. 68 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.