Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35057 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 25(1-B)a and 26(ii) of the Arms Act. From one Shashi Shekhar Sharma one single barrel gun and seventeen cartridges were recovered when said Shashi Shekhar Sharma produced a license for one pistol and suggested that the Arms and the license were supplied to him by this petitioner on payment of Rs.2,50,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that except the statement of Shashi Shekhar Sharma there is nothing against the petitioner and admittedly there is no recovery from the petitioner. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35057 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 2/2 A statement has been made in para 10 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned ACJM, Danapur in connection with Naubatpur P.S. Case No. 68 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be accepted on filing affidavit that he shall regularly co- operate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O. concerned by the learned court below. The non-cooperation in investigation will liberty to the prosecution to file application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.