Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24740 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24740 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kapleshwar Rai @ Kapleshar Rai S/O Jungi Rai Resident Of Village- Sherpur Diyara, Tola- Gonuchak, Police Station- Vidyapati Nagar, District- Samastipur 2. Dinesh Rai S/O Kaplesh Rai Resident Of Village- Sherpur Diyara, Tola- Gonuchak, Police Station- Vidyapati Nagar, District- Samastipur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-07-2012 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned Counsel for the State. This is an application for grant of anticipatory bail on behalf of the petitioners in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. case No. 93 of 2010 registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . As per the First Information Report there was a demand of dowry and torture therefor, which finally resulted into the death of informant’s daughter who was married to Umesh Rai within seven years of marriage. After investigation, however, the police have submitted charge-sheet under [STATUTE] against the husband of the victim. On the basis of the final form submitted by the police cognizance has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24740 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 taken under [STATUTE] not only against the husband of the victim but also these petitioners. Petitioner no.1 is the father-in-law of the victim, whereas petitioner no.2 is the elder brother of the victim’s husband. In that view of the matter, let the petitioners above- named in the event of their arrest/surrender within four weeks from today before the Court below, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingh Sarai, Samastipur in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. case No. 93 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Arun Kumar/- (Chakradhari Sharan 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.