Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1514 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.1588 of 2012 ====================================================== Usha Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 19-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that for taking loan, the petitioner no.1 got executed the mortgage deed on behalf of Bimla Devi but the photo of Usha Devi (petitioner no.2) was affixed in place of Bimla Devi and the said forgery was detected when the son of Bimla Devi filed an application. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner got the mortgage deed executed through Bimla Devi and Bimla Devi had not raised any objection, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1514 of 2012 (3) dt.19-03-2012 2/ 2 moreover no loan was sanctioned to the petitioners on the basis of the said alleged mortgage deed. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Goh P.S. Case No. 61 of 2010, 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.