Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17604 of 2012 ====================================================== Tirgun @ Shrigun Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-05-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that complainant being commission agent hired the truck of the petitioner for transportation of goods but subsequently it could not reach to the assignee place. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the person whose assignment was to be transported has not been named nor anyone has made complaint. It is further submitted that there is no proof with regard to entrustment of assignment to the petitioner and for the accusation of 06.04.2010 the complaint was filed on 24.08.2011. Considering the aforesaid submission and the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17604 of 2012 (2) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Tirgun @ Shrigun Rai, 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 S.D.J.M., Raxaul at Motihari in connection with Complaint Case No. 145 of 2010. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 418

Statute Text:
Section 418 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, either by law or by legal contract, to protect. Whoever cheats with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause wrongful loss to a person whose interest in the transaction to which the cheating relates, he was bound either by law, or by legal contract, to protect, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.