Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22070 of 2012 (3) dt.31-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22070 of 2012 ====================================================== Kiran Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.22104 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 31.07.2012 Both the above stated petitions arise out of Sherghati (Dobhi) P.S. Case no. 09/2012 registered under [STATUTE] , and, accordingly, both the above stated petitions are being disposed off by this common order. Heard learned counsels for both the parties. Petitioners are not named in the first information report and their names came in this case in course of investigation. It is stated that petitioner in Cr. Misc.no.22070/2012 along with petitioner in Cr. Misc.no.22104/2012 had committed murder of the deceased as the deceased had illicit relationship with petitioner in Cr. Misc.no.22070/2012 and furthermore, petitioner in Cr. Misc.no.22070/2012 wanted to digest Rs 25,000/- of the deceased and except the confessional statement of petitioner in Cr. Misc.no.22070/2012, there appears to be nothing against the petitioners. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22070 of 2012 (3) dt.31-07-2012 Considering the above stated facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let, petitioners, Kiran Devi and Munna Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/-each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati, Gaya in Sherghati (Dobhi) P.S. Case no. 09/2012. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.