Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43163 of 2012 ====================================================== Phul Narayan Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the junior engineer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the year 2003-04 for construction of two rooms in the primary school of Baruna in the District of Patna, against the sanctioned amount of Rs. 2,53,400/-, Rs. 2,40,690/- was withdrawn by the School Education Committee. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the construction made in the year 2003-04, the enquiry was made in the year 2010-11 when the FIR was registered in the year 2011 when the work was found sub-standard and the Headmaster of the school has been granted anticipatory bail by this court vide Cr. Misc. No. 23615 of 2011. 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.43163 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City, Patna in connection with Gaurichak P.S. Case No. 12 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.