Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12357 of 2012 ====================================================== Rameshwar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of transferring 66 decimals land of the petitioner in favour of the complainant on 25.7.2007 out of which, the petitioner had the title over 46 decimals of land and rest 20 decimals were government lands. It is submitted that the petitioner had Parcha of the government land and pursuant to that, the petitioner executed the sale deed. Considering the fact that for the transfer made in 2007, the complaint has been lodged in 2011, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12357 of 2012 (2) dt.11-04-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Sikrahata P.S. Case No. 2 of 2012 arising out of complaint case no. 1481 C of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.