Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3816 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Manoj Kumar Sah 2. Chandra Kala Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 3(I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is that on promise of marriage, the petitioner no.1 established physical relationship but subsequently petitioners refused to marry and abused the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant has filed the case after one year of the alleged occurrence and no medical examination of the victim girl was done and in para 6 of the petition it has been stated that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3816 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the informant has already married to one Amarjeet in the year 2010. Considering the delayed lodging of the F.I.R. and the fact that the victim being major established physical relationship in anticipation of the marriage, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur, Camp at Rosera in connection with Bibhutipur P.S. Case No. 212 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. 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.