Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42588 of 2012 ====================================================== Digambar Choudhary @ Digamber Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 5,00,000/- was given for providing employment when one Ravindra Paswan who happens to be the son-in-law of this petitioner gave some forged appointment letter. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the F.I.R. does not stipulate as to whom the money was actually paid nor any proof with regard to the payment has been brought on record when for the same occurrence two cases have been lodged and in other case the petitioner has been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Digambar Choudhary @ Digamber Choudhary, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42588 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Darbhanga in connection with Bahadurpur P.S. Case No. 2 of 2012. 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.