Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45662 of 2012 ====================================================== Manish Kumar Sinha @ Manish Kr. Sinha (Medical Representative .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, complainant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner introduced the complainant to one S.M. Krishna when the complainant worked as petty contractor under S.M. Krishna and paid Rs. 8,00,000/- when subsequently S.M. Krishna issued cheques which got bounced. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the agreement was between S.M. Krishna and the complainant when the petitioner was only introducer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the complainant that petitioner actually persuaded the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.45662 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 2 / 2 2 complainant to enter into the business agreement with S.M. Krishna. Considering the thrust of accusation against other accused persons, let the petitioner namely Manish Kumar Sinha @ Manish Kr Sinha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabhua in connection with Complaint Case No. 816 of 2011, Trial No. 217 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.