Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7157 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Rai & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-03-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners being broker of coal business received money from the complainant but they did not supply the coal. Initially the complaint was filed which was transferred as the police case under Section 156(3) of the Cr.P.C. when accusation was found false and final form was submitted. Thereafter protest was also dismissed but in pursuance to the revisional order, cognizance has been taken on protest on 19.01.2010. Considering the fact that accusation was found false during investigation, let the petitioners namely 1. Shankar Rai 2. Mantu Rai 3. Raj @ Gorkha, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7157 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Trial No. 954 of 2010, arising out of Raja Pakar P.S. Case No. 47 of 2004, G.R. No. 1083 of 2004. 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.