Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3703 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Kiumar Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 138 of the N.I. Act. It is alleged that complainant supplied the biscuit worth Rs. 57,938/- for which petitioner issued cheque of Rs. 57,000/- but the same subsequently got bounced. Petitioner is ready to deposit Rs. 57,000/- before learned Court below which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Dilip Kumar Choudhary, 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 Judicial Magistrate, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3703 of 2012 (3) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Ist Class, Chapra in connection with Trial No. 325 of 2011, arising out of Complaint Case No. 747 of 2008. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on deposit of the aforesaid amount. 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.