Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42031 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Rubi Kumari D/O Amerika Singh Residents Of Village- Nathua, P.S.- Marhowrah, District- Saran At Chapra 2. Sunita Devi Amerika Singh Residents Of Village- Nathua, P.S.- Marhowrah, District- Saran At Chapra 3. Amerika Singh S/O Late Sheo Balak Singh Residents Of Village- Nathua, P.S.- Marhowrah, District- Saran At Chapra.... Petitioners Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 09-08-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail for offence under [STATUTE] . The deceased is the daughter-in-law of petitioner no. 2 and it is alleged that the deceased was done to death and her body disposed off. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the deceased has two children who are living with the petitioners and after the death of the husband of the deceased, Chandan Kumar Singh assured to marry with the deceased, who has been granted bail by this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 42030 of 2011. There is no eye witness to the occurrence. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender, within four weeks from the date of receipt of this order, are directed to be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bounds of Rs.10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Marhowrah P.S. Case No. 78 of 2011 to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code, subject to the condition that the petitioners shall appear in Court on each and every date, fixed in the case and any absence, on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable ground to the satisfaction of the Court below, shall be a ground of cancellation of bail of the petitioner(s) by the lower Court itself. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.