Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18366 of 2012 ====================================================== Manju Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 Petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of getting appointment as Panchayat Teacher on the basis of education certificate which was found to be forged on verification by Bihar Intermediate Council. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was terminated in 2007 but no specific intimation with regard to the verification report was supplied to the petitioner and for the cause of action of 2007 the F.I.R. was lodged in 2011. It is further submitted that similarly situated accused Jai Prakash Singh has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 35918 of 2011. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Manju Kumari, in the event of her arrest or surrender before Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18366 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Buxar in connection with Nawanagar P.S. Case No. 10 of 2011. 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.