Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14361 of 2012 ====================================================== Birendra Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 51, 63, 65 and 68 of the Copy Right Act. It is alleged that the informant has got right to exhibit the film ‘Garv’ but the petitioner was exhibiting the film illegally in Nilam Picture Palace, Mehsi theater. The petitioner was not named in the FIR. It is alleged against the petitioner that he was the manager of the said theater. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is nothing on record to suggest that the petitioner was the manager of the said theater and the charge sheet has been submitted in the year 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14361 of 2012 (2) dt.19-04-2012 2/2 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, East Champaran in connection with Mehsi P.S. Case No. 05 of 2005, 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.