Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6343 of 2012 ====================================================== Shiromani Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband has renewed his prayer for anticipatory bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The case was instituted in the year, 2002 when earlier anticipatory bail of the petitioner was rejected vide order dated 08.09.2004 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 23709 of 2004, this Court is not inclined to revise its earlier order. Let the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Sultanganj P.S. Case No. 144 of 2002 (G.R. No. 1862 of 2002) pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur when the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6343 of 2012 (3) dt.06-03-2012 2/2 learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner considering the fact that petitioner is lady and thrust of accusation is against the husband without being prejudiced by this order. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.