Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9525 of 2012 ====================================================== Surendra Prasad Yadav @ Surendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.10048 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 25-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act and Section 19(C) II, 19(C) III, 19(C) IV of the Fertilizer Control Order. Huge quantity of fertilizer of different brands were found being mixed when the seizure was made. The premise in question belongs to the petitioner Surendra Prasad Yadav who let it out to one Gautam Prasad being the PDS dealer who was also selling the fertilizer and K. oil in black market. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9525 of 2012 (3) dt.25-04-2012 2/2 of petitioner Surendra Prasad Yadav @ Surendra Kumar that the premises was let out by this petitioner to Gautam Kumar and petitioner Pramod Kumar Singh and he has his own business at Patna and he was not residing at the place of seizure. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner Pramod Kumar Singh that there is nothing on record to show that the petitioner took the part of the premises on rent and he has no business concern and has no connection with the premises in question. Considering the fact that from the FIR, it appears that the business of PDS dealer Gautam Pd. Was only found running in the premises in question, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Chapra Nagar P.S. Case No. 164 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.