Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7409 of 2012 ====================================================== Shesh Nath Chaurasia .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the complainant transported the consignment of rice through three trucks but the consignment could not reach to the consignee place. One of the trucks was registered in the name of the petitioner It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the truck was sold by the petitioner to one Vidya Sagar Singh who lodged a case being Sasaram (T) P.S. Case No. 961 of 2009 about the theft of the said truck. Moreover, there is nothing on record that complainant had any contact with the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7409 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2/2 the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri P.C. Verma, learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Complaint Case No. 1587 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.