Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12036 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Kumar Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Petitioner panchayat rojgar sewak is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of committing irregularities in executing government scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that specific accusation is against Junior Engineer and executing agents and one of the executing agent Jai Jai Ram Paswan has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 17875 of 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Nauhatta P.S. Case No. 77 of 2010, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12036 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2 / 2 2 With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.