Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41306 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandra Mohan Thakur & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the bank employees are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant opened an account in the Central Bank Employees Bachat and Sakh Swalambi Sahkari Samittee Limited, in which the petitioners were the employees but the informant deposited Rs. 19,000/- but on maturity it was found that money was not deposited when money was misappropriated by these petitioners. It is submitted that money has been returned to the informant. Let the learned court below consider regular bail of the petitioners Chandra Mohan Thakur, Ashok Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41306 of 2012 (2) dt.06-12-2012 2 / 2 2 Thakur, Ranjan Kumar Gupta @ Ranjan Kumar, Vijayanand Pathak and Molo Kamti @ Moli Kamti if they surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Saharsa P.S. Case No. 67 of 2007 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Saharsa. It is expected that the regular bail application of the petitioners shall be disposed off preferably on the same day. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.