Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9704 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pinki Kumari @ Rekha Kumari 2. Dhiraj Kumar 3. Kameshwar Prasad 4. Shanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 05-04-2012 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 against petitioner no. 1 for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and [STATUTE] against rest of the petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner no. 1 is wife of the complainant and rest of the petitioners are family members of petitioner no. 1. It is further submitted that petitioner no. 1 denies the performance of second marriage and the petitioner no. 1 has earlier filed a complaint case under [STATUTE] which is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9704 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2/2 going on and in retaliation the present case has been lodged. The learned Sessions Judge has wrongly held that the anticipatory bail application is not applicable as [STATUTE] is bailable and [STATUTE] will not attract in this case. Considering the nature of accusation and that the petitioner no. 1 lodged complaint against the complainant, 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 learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa (Nalanda) in connection with Complaint Case No. 808C of 2010, 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.