IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12338 of 2008 ----- SABARA KHATOON & ORS. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 2.5.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case/C.A. No.2160 of 2007 for allegedly committing the offence under sections 420, 406 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that on perusal of the complaint petition it would appear that the complainant has raised a grievance that about 32 years back the sale deed executed by petitioner no.1 contained mistake in plot number, which the petitioners ignored and did not make necessary correction. No allegation is made against petitioner no.2, who is the husband of petitioner no.1 and petitioner no.3 was the scribe of the material deed and petitioner no.4 was the Clerk of the said scribe. It is further submitted that after the sale deed dated 9.1.1975 was executed by petitioner no.1 in favour of the complainant, the same was again sold by the complainant to one Matloob Hussain on 14.1.1976 as stated in paragraph 6 of the petition. The sale deed has been annexed as Annexure 2 to the petition. Learned counsel further submits that the purchaser Matloob Hussain did not take notice of the mistake in plot 2 number. However, he is in possession of the land since the time of purchase of the land about 32 years back. It is submitted that the petitioners have no criminal antecedents and they are respectable agriculturists and of 75 to 90 years of age. In the above circumstances, learned counsel submits that the petitioners are entitled to be granted anticipatory bail. Learned Additional P.P., on the other hand, submits that the matter relates to civil dispute. Considering the submissions as noticed above and on perusal of the allegations made in the complaint petition as well as the documents annexed with the petition as also the averments made therein, let the petitioners, namely, Sabara Khatoon, Maksud Alam, Md. Ibrahim and Jagdish Thakur, in the event of their arrest or surrender, be released on bail on their furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Katihar, in connection with Complaint Case/C.A. No.2160 of 2007, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)