Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4023 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhanu Pd. Verma @ Vijay Bhanu Verma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-02-2012 Petitioner being Headmaster of the school is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of misappropriating 4,19,089/- with regard to the construction of the school and Rs. 20,500/- with regard to the food-grains of mid-day meal. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has deposited the entire alleged amount. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Bhanu Prasad Verma @ Vijay Bhanu Verma, 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 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4023 of 2012 (2) dt.07-02-2012 2 / 2 2 with Islampur P.S. Case No. 197 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally which will be confirmed by learned Court below on verification that petitioner has deposited the entire alleged amount. 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.