Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44806 of 2011 ====================================================== Md. Shamsuddin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 02-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner being the PDS dealer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that on surprise inspection, food grains and Kerosene oil have been found less than the quantity supplied by the authorities. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the lapses, the PDS dealership licence has already been cancelled. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Barsoi P.S. Case No. 160/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on the undertaking given on affidavit which will be supplied to the investigating agency that the petitioner will co-operate in the investigation regularly if the investigation is already not complete. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.