Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37304 of 2012 ====================================================== Dewan Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Korha P.S. Case No. 20 of 2005 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Katihar. It is alleged that the petitioner took the motorcycle of the informant but the same was not returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was the driver of the tractor of the informant but subsequently he left the job when in order to pressurize the petitioner, the present case has been lodged. In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37304 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.