Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21437 of 2012 ====================================================== Bijadhar Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. N. K. Agrawal, Sr. Advocate Mr. Vijay Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. A.H.M. Rahman, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 02-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. Accusation is of seizure of kerosene oi8l and grains from the house of Gauri Shankar Prasad Srivastava. It is alleged that the grains were purchased from the PDS dealership of this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the subsequent inspection by the D.S.O. the stock was found in order. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21437 of 2012 (3) dt.02-08-2012 2/2 It appears that Gauri Shankar Prasad Srivastava, from whom recovery has been made, has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 680 of 2012. I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Paharpur P.S. Case No. 194 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.