Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14441 of 2012 (2) dt.19-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14441 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Kumar Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that being Secretary of Shashank Co-operative Sahkari Grih Nirman Samiti, purchased the land and after plotting he was to distribute the plots among the members of the said society when petitioner entered into conspiracy with other accused and appointed one Hardeo Prasad Sinha in 1985 and without giving notice to the informant, the lands of the society were sold to co accused Dhaneshwar Pandit. It is submitted that for the accusation of 1986, the case was lodged in 2011 and for the same accusation, miscellaneous case was filed before the Registrar of Cooperative Socities, which was dismissed. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14441 of 2012 (2) dt.19-04-2012 petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur in connection with Rupaspur P.S. Case No. 68 of 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.