Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25250 of 2012 (2) dt.24-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25250 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Srivastava .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant run registered NGO to supply ready made Mid-Day-Meal in the schools of four blocks when the petitioner and one Madan Mohan Verma were agent for supply of the food. Subsequently, the informant came to know that the distribution report was submitted not under the signature of seal of Incharge of the schools. It is submitted that when the administration on 10.4.2012 directed for instituting the case against the informant for running NGO, then on 11.4.2012 the present case has been lodged by the informant against the petitioner in order to save his skin. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25250 of 2012 (2) dt.24-07-2012 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sitamarhi P.S. Case No. 240 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.