Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15133 of 2012 ====================================================== Bachi Devi & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioners being mother and sister of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after five years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that as per the own admission of the informant, he came to know about the occurrence dated 19.07.2011 on 10.08.2011 when he came to enquiry to the in-laws house on 15.08.2011 when the F.I.R. was lodged on 16.08.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15133 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 informant that victim was killed in connivance with all the family members of the husband and husband has still not surrendered. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioners will surrender within a period of six weeks, let the petitioners namely 1. Bachi Devi 2. Nibha Kumari, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Shohar at Sitamarhi in connection with Sheohar P.S. Case No. 127 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on surrender of the husband. Shageer/- (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.