Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20496 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Kumar 2. Pappu Kumar @ Pappu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 25-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Sections 18C, 18(a) (vi) and 27(b) (ii) of Drugs and Cosmetics Act. The police seized from Navratan Transport altogether 390 cartoons of Phensedryl cough Linctus loaded on a truck with label containing “Bihar Govt. Supply Not for Sale” when no papers were produced. It is alleged against the petitioners that they are Clerk and Manager of the said transport company. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that they are not the consignee or consigner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20496 of 2012 (2) dt.25-06-2012 2/2 of the aforesaid goods and they are not responsible for the medicine being carried because they are simply employees of the transport company. A statement has been made that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Gaya Kotwali P.S. Case No. 61 of 2012, 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.