Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5417 of 2012 (2) dt.24-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5417 of 2012 ====================================================== Birdeo Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioners : Mr. Om Prakash Upadhyay, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Madhura Nand Jha, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners being the truck driver and cleaner that they took the rice to Muzaffarpur but they did not give consideration amount of rice to the tune of Rs. 3,22,400/-. It is submitted that on 29.08.2011 petitioners filed a case against the present informant for non-payment of transportation and in retaliation to that the present F.I.R. has been filed. Considering the same, let the petitioners, Birdeo Singh and Santosh Singh, be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5417 of 2012 (2) dt.24-02-2012 released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Natwar P.S. Case No.64 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Bikramganj, Rohtas, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.