Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2160 of 2012 ====================================================== Dayanand Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Dr. A.S. Rajoo, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ram Anurag Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 19-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the money with regard to the construction of Gebians under scheme no. 01/2010-11 and 02/2010-11. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that maliciously Mukhiya and Junior Engineer have not been made accused and verification has been done after lapse of considerable period when I.O. has not been examined the construction with regard to Gebians. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2160 of 2012 (3) dt.19-04-2012 2/2 Considering the nature of accusation and the statement of the witnesses recorded during investigation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Rajouli P.S. Case No. 132 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.