Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29160 of 2012 ====================================================== Satya Narayan Gope @ Satya Narain Yadav @ Satya Narain Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of transferring the informant’s land on the basis of forged document. It is submitted that earlier also the informant filed Bihta P.S. Case No. 270 of 2009 with the same accusation. The land was recorded in the name of Madan Dhari Singh, informant’s father-in-law who transferred the same land in favour of the petitioner and petitioner is paying rent to the Bihar Government. There was Misc. Case No. 11 of 2001-02 filed before the D.C.L.R. Patna, by the husband of the informant for the same cause of action. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29160 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2 / 2 2 the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kadam Kuan P.S. Case No. 47 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C. J. M. Patna, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.