Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31334 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Santosh Singh 2. Ramanand Singh @ Ramanand Sharma. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 17-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the husband and father of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in Rafiganj (Pauthu) P.S. Case No. 68 of 2005 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that other accused has been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 442 of 2006. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners if they surrender within a period of eight weeks in view of the fact that others have been acquitted. With the above observation, this application is, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31334 of 2012 (3) dt.17-10-2012 2/2 accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.