Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38856 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajan Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the PDS dealer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of not giving account with regard to grains of 241.60 quintals. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the grains were supplied in the year 2001-02 when demand notice has been challenged by the petitioner in C.W.J.C. No. 22445 of 2011. The petitioner undertakes to deposit 20% of the demand notice within a period of three months. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38856 of 2012 (2) dt.11-10-2012 2/2 (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura in connection with Gamharia P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be provisionally accepted till deposit of the aforesaid 20% of demand notice. Amrendra/- (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.