Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9998 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramji Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Junior Engineer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The case of the informant is that the Executive Officer of Nagar Panchayat had invited some tender for construction of work without taking any approval of the Aam Sabha. The said Executive Officer has not been made an accused. It is alleged against the petitioner who is Junior Engineer that he did not make any measurement properly or made certain wrong entries in the measurement book. Considering the nature of irregularities other Junior Engineer Anant Lal Yadav has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No.38417 of 2011, let the petitioner, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9998 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 2 2 named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Warisaliganj P.S. Case No. 48 of 2010 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. Nawadah, 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.