Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33604 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Neeraj Kumar S/O Shri Anil Kumar Resident Of Village- Banbaria, P.S.- Hulasganuj, District- Jehanabad. 2. Shyam Sunder Choudhary S/O Late Ram Chandra Choudhary Resident Of Village + P.S.- Khihar, District- Madhubani. 3. Suman Kamal @ Sri Kumar Raj Kamal Suman @ Kumar Raj Kamal Suman S/O Kamal Kishore Yadav Resident Of Village- Usari, P.S.- Gogari, District- Khagaria. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 30-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Panchayat Rozgar Sewaks are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the labourers’ wages have been fraudulently withdrawn from the post office. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that money used to be withdrawn by the concerned labourers from their account on identification of the Mukhiya and Panchayat Secretary but in the instant case the employees of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33604 of 2012 (3) dt.30-11-2012 2 / 2 2 the post office have not been made accused and the statement of the postal employee has been recorded in paragraph no. 20 of the case diary who has denied any fraudulent withdrawal. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Basopatti P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Madhubani, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.