Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10124 of 2012 ====================================================== Markanday Upadhyay .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner married to the complainant in 1999. Earlier a complaint case was filed in which cognizance was taken which ultimately ended in compromise and subsequently the petitioner performed second marriage. The petitioner is an Air Force personnel. It is submitted that the petitioner has not performed second marriage and without verifying the same, accusation has been levelled. More over, maintenance of Rs.6700 per month is being given to the complainant from January 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10124 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate, Vikramganj, Rohtas in connection with Complaint case no. 139 /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.