Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39633 of 2012 (2) dt.19-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39633 of 2012 ====================================================== Baldeo Prasad Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 19.10.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 28.8.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is stated that officials of the post office withdrew some amounts from the accounts of beneficiaries of Old Age Pension Scheme and at the relevant time, petitioner was posted as Dakiya in the concerned post office. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that the petitioner had no concern with the work of making entries in pass books of beneficiaries of Old Age Pension Scheme. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Baldeo Prasad Sah, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in Araria (R.S.) P.S. Case no. 155/2012. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,J)

Applicable IPC Section: 418

Statute Text:
Section 418 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, either by law or by legal contract, to protect. Whoever cheats with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause wrongful loss to a person whose interest in the transaction to which the cheating relates, he was bound either by law, or by legal contract, to protect, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.