Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9438 of 2012 ====================================================== Yogendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of taking Rs. 1,00,000/- from the informant in three installments, but fail to execute the sale deed in respect of the land in question. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to payment and due to some petty dispute the present case has been lodged. Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Yogendra Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9438 of 2012 (2) dt.28-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Hilsa P.S. Case No. 157 of 2010. 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.