Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27405 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahesh Kumar @ Mahesh Mahato @ Mahesh Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.27556 of 2012 ====================================================== Jitendra Kumar Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the Nursing Home –cum- Clinic of petitioner Dr. Jitendra Kumar Ranjan was raided when it was found that four co-patients were operated and Rs.5,000/- was charged from each patient whereas it is alleged against petitioner Mahesh Kumar that he was running a medicine shop in the premises of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27405 of 2012 (2) dt.03-08-2012 2/2 the Nursing Home. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner Dr. Jitendra Kumar Ranjan was the assistant of Dr. Jitendra Prasad, who is MBBS and he used to perform surgery and when petitioner Dr. Jitendra Kumar Ranjan used to take care of the patient after surgery whereas it is submitted for the petitioner Mahesh Kumar that the medicine shop was being run under the valid license issued by Drug Controller. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 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, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Govindganj (Areraj) P.S. Case No. 21 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.