Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20894 of 2012 (2) dt.07-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20894 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Yamuna Yadav, S/O Late Hal Singh, R/O Village - Daudnagar, P.S. Daudnagar, Ward No.07, District - Aurangabad 2. Vinod Yadav, S/O Yamuna Yadav, R/O Village - Daudnagar, P.S. Daudnagar, Ward No.07, District - Aurangabad .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== PRESENT: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.N. HUSSAIN ORDER 2 07-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. Petitioners are accused for offences punishable under [STATUTE] Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 is the father-in-law whereas petitioner no. 2 is the elder brother-in-law of the deceased. Learned counsel for the petitioners further submits that no specific overt act has been alleged against the petitioners whereas the in-laws of the deceased always treated her very nicely but unfortunately she got burn injury while cooking on the gas burner whereafter the petitioners and others took immediate step for her treatment and hospitalized her whereafter she was taken to PMCH by Government Ambulance and was admitted in the private nursing home for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20894 of 2012 (2) dt.07-06-2012 better treatment but she could not survive and died and was cremated in presence of the informant and only subsequent to it the informant had filed the case on frivolous allegations. Learned counsel for the petitioners also avers that the husband of the deceased is still in custody whereas the other members of the family have already been enlarged on bail as their petition for anticipatory bail had been allowed by a Bench of this Court. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is allowed. Let petitioners above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000.00 (Rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, Bihar in connection with Daudnagar P.S. Case No. 160 of 2011. Md. Ibrarul/- (S.N. Hussain, 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.