Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40233 of 2012 ====================================================== Triveni Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.42419 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar @ Baua .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-10-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Mukesh Kumar @ Guddu Kumar introduced himself as a Vigilance Officer and took Rs. 2 lacs from the informant for providing employment in the railway and handed over fake joining letter and further demanded Rs. 2 lacs. It is further alleged that when the money was demanded back by the informant then the petitioner Ranjeet Kumar who is brother of Mukesh Kumar @ Guddu Kumar issued a cheque. It is submitted by learned senior counsels for the petitioners that Complaint Case No. 602 of 2012 was filed by the petitioner Ranjit Kumar against the informant on 28.02.2012 alleging that under pressure the cheque was taken Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40233 of 2012 (2) dt.19-10-2012 2 / 2 2 from him and in that complaint the cognizance has been taken and thereafter the present case has been lodged on 30.03.2012 when the cause of action arose at Jamshedpur but in order to put pressure the present case has been lodged. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the petitioners, above named, 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 A.C.J.M., Barh, Patna in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 86 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 420

Statute Text:
Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating and there by dishonestly inducing delivery of property, or the making, alteration or destruction of a valuable security. Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.