Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28964 of 2012 (2) dt.14-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28964 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Swaroop Kumar @ Ram Swaroop Mahto & 2. Ram Bilas Mahto .... .... Petitioners Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the complainant’s daughter’s marriage was fixed with petitioner no.1. Petitioner no.2 is the father of petitioner no.1 when Rs.80,000/- was given as dowry and subsequently demand of Rs.1,50,000/- was made. It is submitted that petitioner no.1 was minor on the relevant date and there is no proof with regard to payment of money and engagement being made. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named two petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28964 of 2012 (2) dt.14-08-2012 period of 12 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 Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate(East), Muzaffarpur in Complaint Case No.3634 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 403

Statute Text:
Section 403 of the Indian Penal Code. Dishonest misappropriation of movable property, or converting it to one's own use. Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any movable property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.