Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1336 of 2012 ====================================================== Banarsi Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that six to seven months prior to lodging of the present case the petitioner established forceful physical relationship with the informant and subsequently refused to marry when the informant got pregnant. The medical report does not reflect any injury or sign of rape nor it reflects that informant was pregnant as claimed by her in the F.I.R. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is aged 55 years and due to land dispute the case has been lodged. Considering the fact that medical opinion does not corroborate the accusation and the delayed lodging of the case, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1336 of 2012 (3) dt.04-04-2012 2 / 2 2 let the petitioner namely Banarsi Ram, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Semra P.S. Case No. 45 of 2011. 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.