Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2113 of 2012 ====================================================== Niranjan Prasad Santhaliya .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, complainant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that complainant negotiated to purchase the truck of the petitioner and his son for Rs. 2,25,000/- out of which Rs. 50,000/- was paid. Initially the complaint was dismissed but subsequently by virtue of revisional order, cognizance has been taken in 2011. Considering the fact that there is no proof with regard to payments and similarly situated accused being son of the petitioner has been granted bail which gets reflected from Annexure-2, let the petitioner namely Niranjan Prasad Santhaliya, in the event of his arrest or surrender before learned 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Samastipur in connection with Trial No. 1806 of 2011, arising out of Complaint Case No. 784 of 2006. 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.