Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8387 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8387 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Balmiki Pandit S/O Late Fagu Pandit 2. Chalani Devi W/O Balmiki Pandit .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 2 02-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased are languishing in jail custody since 10.01.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and ¾ of Dowry Prohibition Act. The impugned order reflects that no apparent injury was found on the person of the deceased except it was found in course of investigation that froth and blood stained fluid were found coming from the nostril and mouth of the deceased respectively at the time of post-mortem examination. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that the husband of the deceased is in jail custody and it is specific assertion of the informant in the first information report that husband of the deceased had accepted his guilt before him. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8387 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Belhar P.S. Case No. 115 of 2011. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.