Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12866 of 2012 ====================================================== Gopal Pandey .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 14-05-2012 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] and 4/40 of the Bihar Mining Rules. The dumper and truck loaded with stones were seized and found that Challans were fake. Subsequently, the I.O. filed requisition for changing registration number of the truck when petitioner’s truck sought to be inserted in the present case when the petitioner’s truck was seized by the D.T.O. when fine was imposed against the petitioner’s truck on the same day when F.I.R. was lodged. Considering the fact that the petitioner is the owner and in initial F.I.R. the truck of the petitioner was not inserted, let the petitioner, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12866 of 2012 (3) dt.14-05-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Sasaram (M) P.S. Case No.942 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., 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.