Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38792 of 2011 ====================================================== 1.Girja Devi @ Bilayee Devi, Wife of Nagina Das. 2.Laxmi Das, Son of Nagina Das. 3.Maya Devi, Wife of Laxmi Das. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary up to paragraph – 69 dated 15/10/2011. All the three petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] , are named accused in this case being in-laws of the deceased, instituted at the instance of village Chowkidar with allegation of disposal of the dead-body in hest after assault resulting into her death. Submission is of false implication due to village politics and the father of the deceased on getting real facts filed an application completely exonerating the petitioners and others from the allegations for which petition is on record with the court below. If it is so, on the event the father of the deceased himself appearing before the court below, on due identification supports the factum of compromise and contents therein with his free will and consent without any coercion and also stood as one of the bailors, in the event of their arrest/surrender before the court below within four weeks, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38792 of 2011 (3) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 named petitioners be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, in connection with Paharpur P.S. Case No. 158 of 2010, subject to condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure with additional condition to petitioner nos. 1 & 3 to remain physically present before the court below till commencement of the trial and petitioner no. 2 till disposal of the case, and in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.