Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13855 of 2012 ====================================================== Kumar Shanu @ Kumar Sonu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.14835 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashish Kumar @ Kumar Ashish .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 18-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner Kumar Shanu that one Raghwendra Pratap appeared in place of the petitioner in the interview of Probationary Officer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner Kumar Shanu that he was very much Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13855 of 2012 (2) dt.18-04-2012 2/3 present and it was only for the verification of the document the said Raghwendra Pratap appeared and not at the actual interview. It is alleged against the petitioner Ashish Kumar that in the confession of apprehended accused his name appears as one of the persons who was in the conspiracy with Raghwendra Pratap. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners that, in fact, Raghwendra Pratap did not appear in the interview and he was only entrusted for presentation of the document when petitioner Kumar Shanu went to ease out and only on suspicion the accusation has been levelled. Considering the nature of accusation and the fact that rejection of the bail will affect the career of the petitioners, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13855 of 2012 (2) dt.18-04-2012 3/3 satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Gandhi Maidan P.S. Case No. 10 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.