Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16268 of 2012 ====================================================== Manish Kumar Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 05/ 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 138 of N.I. Act. It is alleged that Rs.9,40,000/- was taken for providing employment to the complainant’s son when the cheque was issued but subsequently the same got bounced. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he will pay Rs. One lakh within a period of one month and the rest amount in installment of Rs.10,000/- per months from October, 2012. The offer is acceptable to the learned counsel appearing for the complainant. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16268 of 2012 (5) dt.11-09-2012 2/2 The payment will be made by depositing the same in the bank account of the complainant. The counsel for the complainant undertakes to supply the bank account number within a period of two weeks by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail provisionally in the event of his arrest or 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, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 170 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional will be confirmed by the learned court below on payment of the entire amount by the petitioner when the complainant will file proper application for withdrawal of the complaint case. DKS/ (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.