Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12065 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Vandana Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioners : Mr. Rana Pratap Singh, Sr. Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Surendra Kr. Singh, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 63 of the Copyright Act. The informant having been authorized by the Proctor & Gamble Company to verify its genuineness and duplicate products in the market seized 13 duplicate items from the shopping complex of the petitioners. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioners that duplicacy was apparent since batch number was mentioned on the bags but it was not mentioned on the actual products. It is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12065 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2 / 3 2 further submitted that the petitioners are the Directors of the Company and they were not found selling the products. Moreover, there is no proof with regard to products having duplicate by the informant nor the seized products have been sent to analyst for verification of the same and it is claimed by the petitioners side that products were purchased from the authorized dealer of Proctor & Gamble Company, namely, M/S. Kalawati Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., and the receipts of purchased goods from the authorized dealer no verification has been made. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Smt. Vandana Singh and Smt. Meena Sharma, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kotwali P.S. Case No. 485 of 2011 (District- Patna),on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Patna, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on affidavit being filed before the learned court below that the petitioners will co-operate in investigation and the said affidavit be transmitted Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12065 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 3 / 3 3 to the concerned Investigating Officer of the present case by the learned court below. U.K./- (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.