Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38612 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar @ Bablu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing physical relationship on promise of marriage when earlier to the marriage the petitioner took Rs.2,50,000/- from the father of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the first information report it is alleged that the petitioner was only promise to marry when on the next day of the occurrence she was medically examined the age was found as 18-19 years where she claimed to be married but on the medical report she recorded as daughter of Binay Kumar Singh, the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38612 of 2012 (2) dt.16-10-2012 2/2 husband’s name has not been disclosed, but in 164 Cr.P.C. statement the victim claimed to be married with this petitioner in March, 2011. Considering the medical opinion when the victim has found to be major and inconsistency in the statements of the victim between first information report and 164 Cr.P.C. statement, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Aurangabad in connection with Daudnagar P.S. Case No. 187 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.