Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9960 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Ram Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 7 of the E.C. Act. It is alleged that damaged cement were recovered from the godown and from the truck. Subsequently, during investigation it was found that after crushing the damaged cement and mixing it with some materials duplicate cement was being manufactured. It is submitted that the petitioner is not the owner of the truck whereas the godown belongs to one Mahendra Rai who executed a rent lease deed in favour of Dilip Kumar on 19.9.2011 when the FIR was lodged on 20.10.2011. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9960 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2 / 2 2 a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur Mufassil P.S. Case No. 17 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.