Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39459 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamesh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-10-2012 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 accusation is of misappropriating the money with regard to diesel subsidy. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that when the accusation was levelled, enquiry was conducted but since the petitioner failed to identify the beneficiaries of the diesel subsidy, without verifying the distributor register, the enquiry report was submitted by the In-charge Officer, District Revenue vide letter No. 529 dated 12.05.2012 which is the basis of the FIR. Considering the mechanical enquiry report which is the basis of the FIR, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39459 of 2012 (2) dt.16-10-2012 2/2 learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Pauthu P.S. Case No. 25 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.