Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35767 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shail Devi 2. Sarswati Devi. 3. Brij Kishore Prasad. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-09-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make necessary correction in the prayer portion of the petition. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the mother, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the niece of the informant after six years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation it has come that the victim committed suicide. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim who, as per counsel for the petitioners, is in custody, let the above named petitioners be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35767 of 2012 (2) dt.21-09-2012 2/2 released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Raxaul, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with Darpa P.S. Case No. 31 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.