Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11279 of 2012 ====================================================== Mosmat Dharamshila Devi & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the complainant paid Rs. 7,00,000/- for executing the sale deed with regard to land but subsequently the petitioners under pressure took the signature of the complainant on stamp paper that the complainant will pay Rs. 5,00,000/- more for executing the sale deed. Considering the accusation arising out of civil dispute, let the petitioners, Mosmat Dharamshila Devi, Amit Kumar Pankaj @ Anil Kumar Pankaj and Sumit Kumar @ Sunil Kumar, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 369 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11279 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 of 2011 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 J.M.Ist Class, Patna City, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.