Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31428 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajan Roy @ Ranjan Kumar Roy .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-08-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of carrying bitumen of government supply on the truck which was supplied by the petitioner having transport agency. It is submitted that petitioner being the transporter was not aware of articles being carried on the truck and others have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 49342 of 2006, 53319 of 2006 and one Ghanshyam Lal Madhogaria 2 Ghanshyam Lal has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 29599 of 2008. This Court sees no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31428 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 2 / 2 2 Purnia Sadar P.S. Case No. 164 of 2006, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnia. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.