Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11078 of 2012 ====================================================== Dr. Basuki Nath Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being Medical Officer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making excess payment during pulse polio programme and thereby misappropriating Rs.19,920. It is submitted that even though money has not been misappropriated, the petitioner has deposited the aforesaid amount. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11078 of 2012 (3) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui in connection with Sikandara P.S. Case No. 152 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner shall be provisionally accepted till it is verified that the petitioner has deposited the aforesaid amount. 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.