Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35316 of 2012 ====================================================== Devendra Prasad Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . This court is not inclined to interfere since the complaint was filed in 1999. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Complaint Case No. 1622(C ) of 1999, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Patna. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.