Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20814 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shanker Kumar 2. Brajesh Kumar 3. Luchan Yadav @ Luchan Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of realizing Rs. 16,22,000/- from witness nos. 2 to 5 on pretext of providing employment but neither the employment was provided nor the money was returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no proof with regard to the payment and a supplementary affidavit to the extent that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20814 of 2012 (2) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Barh, District – Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 526(C) of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.