Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33838 of 2012 ====================================================== Sardar Harnam Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the complainant that he retired on 31.07.2008 from the office of Plant Protection and he submitted his application for payment of retrial dues when his application was replaced by the petitioner by forged signature, as a result of which the payment has not been made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the entire retrial dues have been paid to the complainant and a statement to that effect has been made in para 11 of the petition. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Sardar Harnam Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33838 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 2 / 2 2 from today, be 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Purnea in connection with Complaint Case No. 3038 of 2010. 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.