Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3195 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rama Muni Singh, 2. Vikash Kumar Singh alias Vikash Singh alias Vikash kumar alias bhanu Pratap, 3. Anjani kumar Singh, 4. Vinay Kumar Singh .... .... 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 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and section 138 of N.I. Act. It is alleged that petitioner no. 3 issued cheque amounting to Rupees six lacs in course of business transaction between the parties, which got dishonoured. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier petitioner no. 1 lodged a case being Mohania P.S. Case no. 173 of 2008 and thereafter, the present case was lodged after three months of the alleged bouncing of the cheque. Considering the accusation arising out of business Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3195 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 relationship of the parties, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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, Bhabua (Kaimur) in connection with Mohania P.S. Case No. 344 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.