Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12765 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Nageshwari Devi, W/o Peyare Baitha 2. Rani Devi, W/o Rajesh Baitha Resident of village-Bahilwara, Gobind, P.S.-Saraiyan, District- Muzaffarpur .... .... Petitioners Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with a case instituted for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . They are named in the F.I.R. with specific allegation that the victim being daughter-in-law of petitioner no. 1 and sister-in-law (Gotani) of petitioner no. 2 was set on fire after tying her hands. When the informant tried to extinguish the fire, the accused persons remained mute spectator. The victim subsequently died. Considering the serious nature of allegation, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the application is dismissed. Sanjeet/- (Ashwani 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.