Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9170 of 2012 ====================================================== Merajuddin @ Md. Merajuddin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture but it is submitted that the informant herself has divorced the petitioner in 2008 and thereafter filed the present case in 2011. Be that as it may, the petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as his wife with full dignity and honour if she denies the factum of divorce. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail provisionally for one year, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned SDJM, West, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9170 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Muzaffarpur in connection with Karja P.S. Case No. 72/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The learned court below shall issue notice to the complainant and on her appearance if she denies the factum of divorce and agrees to live with the petitioner, then the provisional bail shall be confirmed by the learned court below. Anil/- (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.