Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10397 of 2012 ====================================================== Parmeshwar Rai & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. From the hutment situated at the bank of river Ganga huge quantity of kerosene oil was recovered. One person was apprehended while others escaped. The apprehended accused disclosed that the hutment belongs to the petitioners. Petitioners disown the hutment and it is submitted that without proper verification with regard to ownership of the hutment the F.I.R. was lodged. Considering the fact that prima facie recovery has not been made from the possession of the petitioners, let the petitioners namely 1. Parmeshwar Rai 2. Bimlesh Rai 3. Meghnath Rai 4. Munni Rai, in the event of their arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10397 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 11 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.