Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42382 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Maya Soni 2. Pankaj Kumar Soni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners realized Rs. 1,08,000/- and executed an agreement to sale and subsequently petitioner No. 1 sold the land to some other person. It is further submitted that title suit was also decreed ex-parte against which Miscellaneous Case No. 14 of 2012 is pending between the parties. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Town P.S. Case No. 381 of 2002, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42382 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 2 / 2 2 Magistrate, 1st Class, Begusarai. 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 petitioners. 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.