Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24119 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Singh @ Rajesh Kr. Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Aurangabad (Town) P.S. Case No. 86 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad. The accusation is of collecting money for providing insurance policy but subsequently money was misappropriated. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was simply a financial advisor and he was also being cheated. It appears that other accused has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 22473 of 2012. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24119 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.