Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6414 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dhanrajo Devi 2. Om Prakash Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sunil Kumar Pathak, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Anish Chandra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that 2550 sq. feet of land was purchased by the complainant from petitioner no. 1 on 26.02.2009 for consideration of Rs.4,87,000/- but when the complainant went to the land some other persons were claiming title over the same. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner no. 1 is bonafide purchaser through two separate sale deeds dated 13.12.1993 and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6414 of 2012 (2) dt.05-03-2012 2/2 14.12.1994 and she filed rent receipt and by virtue of the same the sale deed has been executed, if someone is not allowing the complainant to enter into the land in question then the petitioner no. 1 cannot be held responsible. Considering the accusation arising out of the civil nature of the dispute, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 Sri Amit Raj, learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 2079 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.