Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22356 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22356 of 2012 ====================================================== Baidyanath Baitha @ Baijnath Baitha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner took rupees ten thousand from the complainant for executing a sale deed but the petitioner neither executed the sale deed nor returned the money. Considering the nature of accusation and the contractual relationship 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 Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22356 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint case No. 2859 of 2009 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.