Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18358 of 2012 ====================================================== Prabha Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shashi Bhushan Pandey, Advocate Mr. Mahendra Thakur, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage. It is alleged against the petitioner that the husband of the deceased has illicit relationship with this petitioner when this petitioner used to reside with the husband of the deceased. It is submitted by learned court below for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18358 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2/2 the petitioner that on suspicion the accusation has been made and the husband of the deceased is in custody. Considering the fact that other accused Surendra Sahani has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 42721 of 2011 and the petitioner is a lady, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Turkaulia (Banjariya) P.S. Case No. 223 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.