Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17096 of 2012 ====================================================== Kaushalya Devi W/O Uttam Sao, R/O Vill-Sakarpura, P.S.-Hasanpur, Distt-Samastipur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vijay Anand, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : ------------------ ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA PRASAD VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 20-06-2012 This is second attempt made by the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail in a criminal prosecution registered under [STATUTE] . The prayer for anticipatory bail made on behalf of the petitioner was earlier rejected vide order dated 10.05.2010 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 12363 of 2010 (Annexure-1) on the ground that the petitioner happens to be the mother-in –law of the deceased. It is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner that after aforesaid order dated 10.05.2010 other co-accused persons including co-accused Sunil Kumar Sah, the husband of the deceased, were put on trial in Sessions Trial No. 556 of 2010 and finally all the four accused persons have been acquitted by the learned trial court by judgment and order dated 15th October 2011 (Annexure-4). In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, the prayer for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17096 of 2012 (2) dt.20-06-2012 2 / 2 2 anticipatory bail of the petitioner, who is an old lady, is allowed. Accordingly, it is ordered that in the event of her arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today in connection with Hasanpur P.S. Case No. 156 of 2008, the above named petitioner shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned ACJM, Rosera at Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. BTiwary/- (Birendra Prasad Verma, 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.