Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27004 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Pandit @ Ashok Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.27698 of 2012 ====================================================== Bishundeo Prasad Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.29156 of 2012 ====================================================== Rudra Nand Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 29-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Headmaster, Assistant Teacher and alleged Teacher are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner Rudra Nand Yadav was never appointed as teacher but he was being paid by the other two petitioners being the headmaster and the teacher who was deputed as messenger and the total money is defalcated to the tune of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27004 of 2012 (4) dt.29-11-2012 2/2 3,34,891/-. It is submitted on behalf of the headmaster and other teacher that the payments were made in pursuance to the order of the District Superintendent of Education, Madhepura when the writ application of Rudra Nand Yadav being CWJC No. 4694 of 2007 was dismissed finding the fact that Rudra Nand Yadav on the date on which he claims his appointed was eleven years of age. The petitioner Rudra Nand Yadav undertakes to deposit Rs. 2,43,000/- and other two petitioners Rs. 75,000/- each before the learned court below which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with present case which will be subject to the result of the present case. On deposit of the aforesaid amount, let the above named petitioners 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/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mahepura in connection with Gamaharia P.S. Case No. 18 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.