Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9874 of 2012 ====================================================== Vimal Kumar Yadav & Lakshmi Paswan. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for an offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of realizing higher rates for the grain. It is submitted that P.D.S. license of the petitioners has been cancelled. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named two petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection Saur Bazar P.S.Case No.263 of 2011, subject to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9874 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2 / 2 2 conditions as laid down under Section 438(2)of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.