Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44225 of 2011 ====================================================== Jai Manti Devi, Wife of Rajo Chaudhary, R/o Village Rahincha, P.S. Shekhopur Sarai, District Sheikhpura. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] , is one of the named accused in this case being mother-in- law of deceased daughter of the informant, who died within nine years of her marriage under some unnatural circumstances. Submission is that on getting correct information, the informant has entered into compromise for which petition is on record of the court below and exonerated the petitioner and others from the charges levelled against them and also accepted that the victim herself committed suicide. If, it is so, on the event of informant appearing before the court below, on due identification accepting the contents of the petition with his free will and consent without any coercion and also stood as one of the bailors, in the event of her arrest/surrender before the court below within four Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44225 of 2011 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 weeks, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura, in connection with Sheikhpura P.S. Case No. 18 of 2011, subject to condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure with additional condition to remain physically present before the court below till disposal of the case and in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.