Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2886 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramji Mishra @ Ramji Mishra, 2. Chhotan Mishra alias Chhotan Mishr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 30-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The petitioners being agnates of the informant, are alleged to have sold the share of the informant by obtaining forged land possession documents. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners have sold their share of property and a partition suit is pending between the parties. Considering the nature of accusation arising out of land dispute between the parties, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2886 of 2012 (2) dt.30-01-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhabhua (Kaimur) in connection with Kurahani P.S. Case no. 13 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.