Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10919 of 2012 ====================================================== Javed Iqbal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 22-06-2012 The matter was passed over on 11.05.2012 when none appears. Today also none appears for the petitioner. Learned counsel for the State is present. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 138 of N.I. Act. The accusation is that the petitioner took Rs.1,25,000/- from the complainant for supply for electric goods when it was not supplied and thereafter petitioner issued three cheques which got bounced. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner only on the ground that complaint was filed in 2007. Let learned court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10919 of 2012 (4) dt.22-06-2012 2/2 below consider the regular bail of the petitioner without being prejudiced by the order of this Court keeping in view of the fact that the accusation arises out of contractual relationship between the parties if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 1726 of 2007 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Muzaffarpur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. DKS/ (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.