Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38594 of 2012 ====================================================== Satyendra Singh & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-10-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner purchased maize crops from July, 2000 to May 2011 on credit but subsequently payment was not made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no proof with regard to the payment when a statement has been made in para 16 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the accusation arising out of contractual relationship between the parties, let the petitioners namely 1. Satyendra Singh 2. Pankaj Kumar Singh, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38594 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Madhepura in connection with Alam Nagar P.S. Case No. 121 of 2011. 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.