Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25455 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25455 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Shakuntala Devi & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that petitioners realized Rs. 20,000/- for providing job to the informant and when demand was made to return the money, the petitioners abused by calling caste name. It is also alleged that similar accusation has been made from other persons also. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no proof with regard to the payment to the petitioners and accusation of abusing by calling caste name is not alleged to have committed in public view when for the occurrence of 21.09.2010, the F.I.R. was lodged on 01.10.2012. A statement has been made in para 13 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Smt. Shakuntala Devi 2. Sri Rameshwar Singh, in the event Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25455 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 of their arrest or surrender before the Court 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, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Koilwar P.S. Case No. 10 of 2012. 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.