Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20348 of 2012 ====================================================== Prem Chandra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-06-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of concealment of facts in the promotion of Headmaster in the medical held on 13.06.2011 under the Chairmanship of District Magistrate. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that promotion was made in 1996. The promotion order was challenged in Appeal, subsequently in the writ and the matter travelled up to the Apex Court. Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Prem Chandra, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20348 of 2012 (2) dt.28-06-2012 2 / 2 2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Katihar(S) P.S. Case No. 221 of 2012. 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.