Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40685 of 2012 ====================================================== Fanindar Nath Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 3 lacs was realized from the complainant and others for providing employment. The employment was provided at Kapurthalla but subsequently the complainant and other suspected some fraud play. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to taking of Rs. 3 lacs though Rs. 1.35 lacs was paid in the account of petitioner. The petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs. 1.35 lacs before the learned court below within a period of six months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with present case which will be subject to the result of the present case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40685 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 2/2 petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within 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, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Complaint Case No. 1602 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be provisionally accepted by learned court below till deposit of the aforesaid amount. 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.