Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.292 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mun Mahesh Thakur 2. Manju Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 05-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the pressure of petitioner no.2 one Dulari Devi executed the sale deed in favour of Parsuram Rai and Gangadhar Rai. Petitioner no.1 is the witness of the sale deed. It is submitted that in pursuance to the sale deed the names of the vendors have been mutated. Considering the nature of accusation arising out of sale deed executed in favour of the persons who are not petitioner before this Court, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Arrah in connection with Piro P.S. Case No. 129/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.