Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7310 of 2012 ====================================================== Sharma Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner was entrusted 650.79 quintals of rice for being distributed under Sampurna Gramin Rozgar Yojana scheme. The accusation is of misappropriating Rs.5,21,970/-. It is submitted that the grains were supplied between the years 2001 to 2007 whereas the FIR was lodged in 2011. The petitioner undertakes to deposit the amount which, after due verification, will be found due against the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid undertaking of the petitioner, let the above named 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7310 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 112/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.