Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20810 of 2012 ====================================================== Madan Mohan Verma .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant run registered N.G.O. to supply readymade Mid-Day-Meal in the schools of four blocks when the petitioner submitted the distribution report under the signature of some other person not under the signature of In-charge of the Schools. It is submitted that when administration on 10.04.2012 directed for instituting the case against the informant for running N.G.O. then on 11.04.2012 the present case has been lodged by the informant against the petitioner in order to save his skin. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20810 of 2012 (2) dt.25-06-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sitamarhi P.S. Case No. 240 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Sitamarhi, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.