Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17189 of 2012 ====================================================== Arbind Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Ex-Mukhiya of the Panchayat is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant being the Panchayat Secretary that on 18.06.201 the signature was obtained on the paper but the actual charges were not handed over. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the charges were handed over on 18.06.2011 when the objection has been raised six months thereafter on 28.12.2011 when the present case was instituted. Considering the fact that the informant himself admitted that the charges were handed over on 18.06.2011, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17189 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2/2 a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur (Mufassil) P.S. Case No. 86 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.