Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8193 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Kumar Jha @ Chandan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-03-2012 Petitioner is languishing in custody since 06.01.2012 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that one Ankit Kumar reserved the auto-rickshaw of the informant and allowed some persons to sit in the auto-rickshaw and subsequently the informant was deprived of the auto-rickshaw. The name of the petitioner sprang up on the confession of Ankit Kumar. The auto- rickshaw was recovered from the possession of Karan Kumar @ Bhola. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Rajesh Kumar Jha @ Chandan Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8193 of 2012 (2) dt.16-03-2012 2 / 2 2 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City, Patna in connection with Alamganj P.S. Case No. 1 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.