Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6766 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashutosh Maharaj .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-03-2012 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 executing the sale deed with regard to the land of the informant to one Dina Nath Rai by impersonating the informant. It is submitted that in fact the informant executed the sale deed and at earlier point of time the petitioner filed complaint before the Additional Collector that the informant describing the residential property as Diyara land has executed the sale deed in order to save money. Considering the nature of accusation arising out of civil nature of dispute between the parties and complaint made earlier, let the petitioner, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6766 of 2012 (2) dt.07-03-2012 2 / 2 2 above named, be 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 Sonepur P.S. Case No. 324 of 2009, G.R> No. 4823 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Chapra 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: 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.