Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14493 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Ram .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of collecting Rs. 7,00,000/- from the informant and other for installation of mobile tower on the land of informant and others when neither mobile tower was installed nor money was returned. It is submitted that petitioner’s mother lodged K. Hat (Sahayak) P.S. Case No. 434 of 2011 on 25.09.2011 for kidnapping of petitioner against the informant then present complaint was filed on 29.09.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 02.10.2011 and there is no proof with regard to payment. Considering the fact that petitioner side lodged case against the informant at earlier point Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14493 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2 / 2 2 of time, let the petitioner, above named, 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 Nokha (Dharmpura) P.S. Case No. 178 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Rohtas at Sasaram, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.