Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17141 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Kumar Mandal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 13-07-2012 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 10 of Bihar Conduct of Examination Act. It is alleged that question papers of Teachers Eligibility Test was lift when five persons were apprehended and from their possession lift question papers were recovered and petitioner managed to flee away, whose name was stated by the apprehended accused persons. It is submitted that there is no recovery from the petitioner and a statement has been made that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17141 of 2012 (3) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Jamui P.S. Case No. 41 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.