Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28116 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Kumar Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The ground floor of the house of Ram Kishore Rai was raided when huge quantity of rice, bags having marks of FCI and other weighing and stitching machine were recovered. The land owner conveyed that the premise was hired by this petitioner hence it was suspected that the grains were kept for selling in the black market. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a grain dealer and the recovery of the grains constitutes no offence when the bags having FCI mark are available in the market. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28116 of 2012 (2) dt.08-08-2012 2/2 above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 291 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.