Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7985 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Baban Seth@Baban Pd. Seth 2. Rinku @ Rakesh Seth @ Rajesh Seth. .... .... 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 and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that for the marriage of the daughter of the complainant with petitioner no.2, the negotiation was made when the complainant handed over Rs. 80,000/- to the petitioners but ultimately the marriage could not be solemnized. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the marriage was not fixed hence prior to the fixation of the marriage, the question of payment does not arise. The petitioners are ready to deposit Rs. 40,000/- before the learned court below which will be invested in some fix deposit schemes in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the case. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7985 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2/ 2 On deposit of the aforesaid amount, let the above named petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas in connection with Complaint Case No. 251C 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.