Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23550 of 2012 ====================================================== Guru Prakash @ Munna Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 19-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of taking money and issued cheque of Rs.7,19,350/- when the cheque was bounced. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the cheque was given by way of security when the money for the transfer of land made by the informant side was paid in cash. The agreement executed between the parties, which has not been disputed by the petitioner, reflects that the cheque was issued by the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23550 of 2012 (3) dt.19-09-2012 2/2 petitioner. In that view of the matter, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Hajipur P.S. Case No. 534 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Vaishali at Hajipur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.