Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27574 of 2012 ====================================================== Maheshwar Mahton .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.29343 of 2012 ====================================================== Bipin Kumar Choudhary @ Bipin Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-08-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they purchased the wheat on lesser price than the prescribed price of the government. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that they are the poor farmers and there is no proof with regard to the purchase made by the petitioners. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27574 of 2012 (2) dt.06-08-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Begusarai in connection with Mansoor Chak P.S. Case No. 45 of 2012. Shageer/- (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.