Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2787 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Pravesh Rai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Ex-Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating 82 quintals of food grains by showing it to be distributed to dead, missing and non-resident persons. It appears that other accused Ramesh Rai has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 36041 of 2011. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner and dispose off the same preferably on the same day if the petitioner surrenders and prays for regular bail within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2787 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2/2 weeks from the date of recept/production of copy of this order in connection with Runnisaidpur P.S. Case No. 73 of 2011 pending before the learned C.J.M., Sitamarhi. With this observation, this application is disposed off. Let the order be communicated through fax to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.