Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18666 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Singh @ Anil Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner being Surveyor of Reliance India Mobile agreed to fix the mobile tower on the land of the petitioner when Rs.95,000/- was demanded by the petitioner. It is alleged that the complainant paid Rs.50,000/- cash and furniture of Rs.45,000/- to the petitioner. It is further alleged that again Rs.50,000/- was demanded by the petitioner which the complainant refused and thereafter on demand neither the money was returned to the complainant nor mobile tower was fixed. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18666 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 2/2 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the payment and the petitioner is only a Surveyour and is not authorized to fix mobile tower. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Complaint Case No. 4023 of 2007, Tr. No. 2024 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.