Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20570 of 2012 ====================================================== Awadh Kishore Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 5 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case filed for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 138 of the N.I. Act. The accusation is of taking Rs. four lacs when subsequently cheque of Rs. four lacs was issued which got bounced. The matter is being adjourned since 25.06.2012 for settlement of the issue. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since the son of the petitioner is admitted at Delhi, hence the settlement could not be arrived at but he is still ready for settling the issue. In the circumstance, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for six months, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20570 of 2012 (5) dt.11-12-2012 2/2 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Barh, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 271C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned court below if the petitioner settles the issue and files a joint application with the signature of the complainant before the learned court below. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 418

Statute Text:
Section 418 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, either by law or by legal contract, to protect. Whoever cheats with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause wrongful loss to a person whose interest in the transaction to which the cheating relates, he was bound either by law, or by legal contract, to protect, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.