Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14789 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Rai & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the forged certificate the petitioners were appointed on contract basis as Agricultural Adviser. It is submitted by learned court for the petitioners that they worked as Agricultural Advisor for a very brief period and have already deposited Rs. 80,000/- as security money. The petitioners undertake to deposit the entire salary received by them after deducting the security money Rs. 80,000/- within a period of six months. Let the informant calculate the amount of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14789 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2 / 2 2 salary received by petitioners after deducting the security money deposited by the petitioner and submit before the learned court below. The aforesaid amount will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme which will be subject to result of the case. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the petitioners, Raj Kumar Rai, Arun Kumar Sharma and Jitendra Kumar Yadav, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Chapra Mufassil P.S. Case No. 240 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Saran at Chapra, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.