Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30989 of 2012 ====================================================== Aniruddh Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-08-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. Accusation is of receiving Rs. 7,00,000/- for appointing 55 candidates as labourors in the F.C.I. Subsequently Parsuram Singh issued two cheques of Rs. 6,80,000/- which got bounced. Persuram Singh has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 25279 of 2012 on the undertaking that he will deposit the aforesaid amount. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has no criminal antecedent and payment has not been made to him. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Aniruddh Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30989 of 2012 (2) dt.30-08-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 2763 of 2010, corresponding to Trial No. 3886 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.