Maintenance of peace and order is essential in any society for humans to live peacefully and without fear of injury to their lives, limbs and property. The chief concern of a criminal law is to protect and preserve certain fundamental social values and institutions, and for this, it prescribes a set of norms of human behaviour and forbids certain conducts; and prescribes punishments for the disregards of such norms and conducts. The Cheating is one of the most general forms of human element and behaviour. The offence of cheating contemplated u/ss 415 and 420 of IPC, 1860, ordinarily involves fraudulent representation (which includes concealment of material facts), followed by inducement to give away / part with the property / money, on the basis of said representation. The word property would include all things or any rights which can be measured in money terms, including the money itself. However, there may be an offence of cheating even in the absence of parting with of any...