Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19386 of 2012 (2) dt.21-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19386 of 2012 ====================================================== Pashupati Ojha @ Pashupati Nath Ojha & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Deepak Kr. Sinha For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Shantanu Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHIVAJI PANDEY ORAL ORDER 2 21-05-2012 Heard the parties. The present case is arising from Complaint Case No. 377 of 2009 for offences under [STATUTE] . In the complaint petition it has been alleged that the complaint has given Rs. 2,00,000/- (two lakhs) to the petitioners for installing the printing press and this money was kept for the marriage of his daughter. When the petitioner did not return the money, the present case has been lodged. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is a simple Pujari of temple and there is no occasion for him to install the printing press, The learned counsel for the informant submits that complainant has given Rs. 2,00,000/- (two lakhs) to the petitioner on the basis of friendship and neighbourhood. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19386 of 2012 (2) dt.21-05-2012 The counsel for the informant could not produce a chit of paper to show the money was given to the petitioner. Looking to the nature of dispute, petitioner No. 1 who is claiming to Pujari of Mandir and petitioner No. 2 who is son of petitioner No. 1, in the event of arrest or surrender within four weeks from to-day in the court below, both petitioners, namely (1) Pashupati Ojha @ Pashupati Nath Ojha and (2) Ravi Kumar @ Guddu @ Ravi Ranjan Kr. Ojha be released on anticipatory bail on their furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned J.M. 1st class, Jehanabad in Complaint Case No. 377 of 2009, Tr. No. 1064 of 2012, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) Cr. P.C. and also subject to the condition that they will co-operate in the trial. If the petitioners will fail to co- operate in the trial, the court below will have a liberty to pass appropriate order. Mahesh/- (Shivaji Pandey, 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.