Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29464 of 2012 ====================================================== Kumar Raghvendra Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 10-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Public Relation Officer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of collecting the school fee from the students of the school without information being given to the authorities and misappropriating the money. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no students have alleged that school fee was given to the petitioner whereas it is submitted by learned A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State that the students of the school have supported accusation. It is further submitted that during investigation, it has come that school fee collected from the students is lying in the Axis Bank and part Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29464 of 2012 (4) dt.10-10-2012 2 / 2 2 of money was spent with concurrence of the headmaster of the school. Let the learned court below consider regular bail of petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Bodh Gaya P.S. Case No. 129 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Gaya. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.