Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24822 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Drupati Devi 2. Arun Goswami. 3. Ranju Devi. 4. Munesh Goswami. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the mother, brother, sister and brother-in-law of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in Bodh-Gaya P.S. Case No. 209 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation, it transpired that the victim died due to snack bite and considering the same, the husband and sister of the husband of the victim have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 20193 of 2011 and 36573 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24822 of 2012 (3) dt.17-08-2012 2/2 the same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.