Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25440 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25440 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raghubir Giri @ Photo Giri 2. Kusiya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 Petitioners being parents 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 marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that husband has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 44045 of 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 138 of 2011, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25440 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.