Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3171 of 2012 ====================================================== Sujit Kumar Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 12-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of receiving V.P. postal money orders by the petitioner which was being sent in lieu of V.P. parcels transmitted by the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no accusation has been levelled by the postal department and due to the professional rivalry the present case was lodged. It is further submitted that informant has subsequently retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. The case of the informant is that the petitioner escaped from the custody of the police for which Giriyak(Katrisarai) P.S. Case No. 178 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3171 of 2012 (4) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 2011 was registered under [STATUTE] ., hence it is submitted by learned counsel for the State Mr. J.N. Thakur that anticipatory bail is not maintainable. In view of the fact that informant has retracted from initial version it is fit case for regular bail. Let learned Court below pass appropriate order on regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Giriyak(Katrisarai) P.S. Case No. 177 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif. It is expected that learned Court below will dispose off the regular bail application on the same day. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.