Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3467 of 2012 ====================================================== Lakhindrasahani & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 15-03-2012 Petitioners being husband and step-son are languishing in custody since 25.07.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the F.I.R. the informant has admitted that victim was married with petitioner No. 1 ten years prior to the occurrence and since victim was not ready to keep the step-son being petitioner No. 2, due to that dispute she committed suicide. From the own version of the informant, the case prima facie does not come under the purview of [STATUTE] . Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Lakhindra Sahani 2. Meghai Sahani, be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3467 of 2012 (3) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Musahari P.S. Case No. 50 of 2011. 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.