Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12961 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12961 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shankar Choudhary S/O Ram Amit Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur 2. Lalit Choudhary S/O Shankar Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur 3. Sushila Devi @ Rekha Devi W/O Shankar Choudhary R/O Village - Bhadiaya, P.S. Moheddinagar, District - Samastipur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-05-2012 Petitioners are father-in-law, brother-in-law and mother- in-law of the deceased respectively. They apprehend their arrest in a case under [STATUTE] on the allegation that they all used to demand dowry and ultimately done away the daughter of complainant. Petitioners submit that the deceased died in Delhi and they had no concern with the day to day life of the deceased and her husband. Even petitioner Lalit Chaudhary live separately from them. In the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, petitioner no.2 and 3 as mentioned above would be released on bail on their Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12961 of 2012 (3) dt.23-05-2012 furnishing bail bond of Rs.5,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in Mansoorchak Police Station Case No. 4 of 2009. Prayer for bail of petitioner no.1 is rejected with direction to surrender and seek regular bail which would be disposed of on its own merit without prejudice. Shashi./- (Samarendra Pratap 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.