Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35642 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bhuneshwar Rai @ Muneshwar Rai 2. Triloki Rai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that one Surendra Rai executed the sale deed of ten dhurs of land in favour of the father of the complainant but on the spot only six dhurs of land was found. It is further alleged that Surendra Rai by changing his name as Muneshwar Rai @ Bhuneshwar Rai, executed the land in favour of petitioner Bhuneshwar Rai @ Muneshwar Rai in which petitioner no.2 was the identifier. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the thrust of accusation is against Surendra Rai and petitioners are only the purchaser and identifier of the sale deed. Moreover, the title suit is also pending between the parties. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35642 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2/2 petitioner 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Saran at Chapra in connection with Complaint Case No. 632 of 2012, 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.