Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5718 of 2012 ====================================================== Lalita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 27-04-2012 Petitioner being neighbor of the husband of the deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after three years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is alleged against this petitioner that being neighbor she used to instigate the husband and mother-in-law of the deceased to torture. A statement has been made in the petition that investigation is pending against the petitioner and petitioner was not aware about involvement in the case as she resides in Delhi. Considering the nature of accusation and the fact that investigation is still pending, let the petitioner namely Lalita Devi, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5718 of 2012 (4) dt.27-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M.(West) Muzaffarpur in connection with Paroo P.S. Case No. 66 of 2006. Shageer/- (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.