Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3335 of 2012 ====================================================== Amjad Islam .... .... 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 02-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner took rupees one lac forty thousand as loan from the complainant and subsequently, issued two cheques of rupees sixty thousand each dated 12.3.2009, which got bounced. It is submitted that for lost of the cheque book, a sanaha was lodged in the police station on 10.2.2009. It is a case of the complainant that he deposited the cheque on 15.3.2009 when it was found that the account was closed. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3335 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2 / 2 2 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 10 C /2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 418

Statute Text:
Section 418 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, either by law or by legal contract, to protect. Whoever cheats with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause wrongful loss to a person whose interest in the transaction to which the cheating relates, he was bound either by law, or by legal contract, to protect, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.