Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36677 of 2012 ====================================================== Abinash Sharma @ Banti @ Abinash Kumar Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 08-11-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that all the accused persons including the petitioner realized Rs. 6,30,000/- at the rate of 70,000/- per person for providing Class-IV employment in the railway but neither employment was provided nor money was returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the payment and in the F.I.R., it is not specifically made clear that actually payment was paid to the petitioner. It is further submitted that earlier with same accusation Kuchaikot P.S. Case No. 33 of 2010 was lodged against the petitioner in which the petitioner is on anticipatory bail when a statement has been made in para 6 of the petition that except the aforesaid case, the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36677 of 2012 (4) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 has no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Abinash Sharma @ Banti @ Abinash Kumar Sharma, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Phulwaria P.S. Case No. 15 of 2011. 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.