Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29777 of 2012 ====================================================== Kishun Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 07-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Junior Engineer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing irregularity in cleaning work of Ramtua Ahar vide Scheme No. 02/11-12, 03/11-12 and 10/11-12. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the work was started on 13.03.2012 when the Deputy Collector submitted the report with regard to Scheme No. 02-11-12 and found no irregularity, but later the same Deputy Collector submitted another report on 08.05.2012 showing some irregularity and thereby it was alleged that the government money to the tune of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29777 of 2012 (2) dt.07-09-2012 2/2 Rs.64,361/- was misappropriated. Considering the inconsistency in the report of the Deputy Collector, 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 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Hasua P.S. Case No. 77 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.