Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34744 of 2012 (2) dt.14-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34744 of 2012 ====================================================== Most. Chamali Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the informant has retracted from the initial version and considering the same the husband of the victim has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 30272 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, this court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give similar relief to the petitioner in case the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Raj Nagar P.S. Case no. 84 of 2011 pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Madhubani. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34744 of 2012 (2) dt.14-09-2012 This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. 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.