Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17942 of 2012 ====================================================== Lakhan Lal Poddar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-05-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on a complaint being made the programme officer made inquiry and found that headmaster of Sri Laxmi Udit Narayan High School, Sakarpura, instead of giving Rs. 2000/- cash to the students under Mukhyamantri Cycle Yojana entrusted the money to Rani Cycle Store and Shankar Cycle Store who subsequently gave less amount of money to the students. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. Petitioner runs a cycle store namely Lakhan Cycle Store and he has only given money to the students and whatever he sold the cycle he sold on payment and subsequent involvement of the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17942 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 2 / 2 2 itself becomes doubtful since after inquiry the programme officer lodged the case when petitioner was not named in the First Information Report. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Lakhan Lal Poddar, in the 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, Begusarai in connection with Bakhari P.S. Case No. 24 of 2012. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on filing affidavit by petitioner that he will cooperate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the I.O. by learned Court below. 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.