Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25785 of 2011 (4) dt.23-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25785 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Mosmat Chhathiya Devi, wife of late Mahendra Sahni 2. Bhagwati Devi, wife of Bhutta Sahni 3. Nilu Devi, wife of Fudan Sahni 4. Bhutta Sahni, son of late Mahendra Sahni All are resident of village – Goshai Tola, P.S. – Kanti, District – Muzaffarpur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 4 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The four petitioners, 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 deceased daughter of the informant who died under unnatural circumstances within four years of her marriage. Submission is of false implication and the husband of the deceased has already facing trial in sessions trial no. 632/2010 for offences under [STATUTE] . Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of their arrest/surrender before the court below within four weeks, let the above named petitioners be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) each with Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25785 of 2011 (4) dt.23-03-2012 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, (West) Muzaffarpur, in connection with Kanti P.S. Case No. 130/2010, subject to condition laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure with additional condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case, in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Rajeev/- (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.