Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1758 of 2012 Piaria Devi & Anr. Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 18.01.2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. The occurrence is of 28.04.2011, when the complaint was filed on 19.05.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 01.07.2011. It appears that subsequently the informant has retracted from initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. The delayed lodging of the complaint and the retracted version of the informant cloud the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Piaria Devi 2. Lalsa Kumari, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Nawanagar P.S. Case No. 96 of 2011, arising out of Complaint Case No. 415C of 2011. 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.