Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38577 of 2012 ====================================================== Praveen Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-10-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that petitioner being Executive Assistant of the Procurement Centre got the grains unloaded of one Dinesh Yadav without the order of enforcement and when the Chairman of the PACS objected then scuffle took place. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the authorities of the PACS have not made any objection and without verification of the fact the accusation has been levelled. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Praveen Kumar, 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. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38577 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Madanpur P.S. Case No. 143 of 2012. 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.