Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4829 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Satyadeo Prasad S/O Late Mahendra Prasad R/O- Miratola, P.S.- Baikunthpur, District- Gopalganj 2. Rajiv Prasad Srivastava @ Rajiv Kumar Srivastava @ Bade S/O Umeshwar Prasad R/O- Miratola, P.S.- Baikunthpur, District- Gopalganj .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 15.02.2012 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 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they took Rs.1,00,000/- for sending the complainant’s son abroad for employment. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners being the agnates of the complainant having series of litigation with the complainant. Considering the fact that litigated Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4829 of 2012 (2) dt.15-02-2012 2/2 relationship between the parties clouds the bonafide of the accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Complaint Case No. 264 of 2007 (Tr. No. 819 of 2011), subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.