Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40221 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kamal Bhagat 2. Jaga Bhagat 3. Geeta Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation against the petitioner No. 1 to have assaulted the husband of the informant on the head when accusation of assault is also against petitioner No. 2 when petitioner No. 3 caught hold of the husband of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that specific accusation of assault is only against petitioner No. 1. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. However, let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioners, particularly petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 keeping in view Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40221 of 2012 (2) dt.02-11-2012 2 / 2 2 that petitioner No. 2 is eighty years old and petitioner No. 3 is lady, if the petitioners surrender within a period of eight weeks. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off in connection with Saraiya P.S. Case No. 154 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M., West, Muzaffarpur. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.