Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10382 of 2012 ====================================================== Jagdish Rai & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of transferring one decimal of informant’s land by petitioner No. 1 in favour of his wife petitioner No. 2 when petitioner Nos. 3 and 4 are the witnesses of the sale deed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners and informant are the purchaser from the Chulhiya Devi and the land which has been transferred by the petitioners was not the purchased land of the informant. Considering the accusation arising out of land dispute between the parties, let the petitioners namely 1. Jagdish Rai 2. Meena Devi 3. Sakhichand Paswan 4. Deolal Rai, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10382 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 2 / 2 2 below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Hazipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 3264 of 2009. The grant of bail will, no way amount to giving any opinion with regard to the claim of the petitioner on the land in question. 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.