Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8192 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Tulsyan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant was holding the power of attorney for the land in question which has been sold by the petitioner in favour of accused no. 6 to 17. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner that the power of attorney was executed in favour of the informant on 23.05.2008 when the names of the original land-lords/their parentage were altered on 04.03.2011 by D.C.L.R. against which the appeal is pending. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the forgery was committed at the behest of the petitioner’s side which has also been noticed by D.C.L.R while passing Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8192 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2/ 2 order. Considering the nature of accusation arising out of land dispute between the parties, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria in connection with Khagaria P.S. Case No. 373 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.