Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44600 of 2012 ====================================================== Satish Chandra @ Chandan Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 138 of the N. I. Act. The order dated 03.10.2012 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, East Champaran, Motihari, to the extent the anticipatory bail application of petitioner has been adjourned for six months is hereby quashed. This Court highly deprecates the manner of adjourning the anticipatory bail application for six months by the learned Sessions Judge. Let the learned Sessions Judge, East Champaran, Motihari, dispose off the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44600 of 2012 (2) dt.05-11-2012 2 / 2 2 of six weeks from the date of receipt or production of copy of this order in connection with Chhatouni P.S. Case No. 158 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., East Champaran, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.