Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42557 of 2012 ====================================================== Jawahir Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Complaint Case No. 1520 of 1997 in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. It is alleged that the land of Sri Janki Rai was transferred through a sale deed when Sri Janki Rai died prior to the execution of the sale deed. The petitioner was the deed writer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is not the beneficiary of the sale deed. This Court is not inclined to interfere since the case was instituted in the year 1997. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42557 of 2012 (2) dt.12-12-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.