Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7390 of 2012 ====================================================== Sumit Kumar Rai@Pinku Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of snatching Scorpio vehicle, a bag containing Rs. 3,00,000/- and jewellery worth Rs. 1,30,000/- on pistol point. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the vehicle in question was on hire purchase and when the purchaser became defaulter then the finance company authorized Upendra Singh to seize and take possession of the vehicle when the vehicle was seized on 28.09.2010 and thereafter the present case was lodged on 29.11.2010. It appears that accused Upendra Singh has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 8164 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7390 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. It is expected that learned Court below will dispose of the application, preferably on the same day. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off in connection with Sahpur P.S. Case No. 203 of 2010, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through Fax to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.