Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22067 of 2012 (2) dt.20-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22067 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.22746 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER ----------- 02/ 20.06.2012 Both the above stated petitions arise out of Fathehpur P.S. Case no. 78/2012 registered under [STATUTE] and, accordingly, both the above stated petitions are being disposed off by this common order. Although petitioners are named in the first information report but it appears from perusal of the first information report as well as impugned order that no intoxicated item was recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioners or from the vehicle in which petitioners are found sitting at the time of alleged occurrence. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that, as a matter of fact, on the alleged date of the occurrence, an altercation took place between the petitioners and the informant and taking the police in his collusion, the informant lodged this false case against the petitioners. Taking into consideration the above stated facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let, petitioners, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22067 of 2012 (2) dt.20-06-2012 Anil Kumar and Munna Kumar be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/-each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Fathehpur P.S. Case no. 78/2012. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.