Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17133 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Kumar @ Hare Ram @ Rajesh Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 26-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the husband of the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that the informant and others for getting appointment as Panchayat Teacher in 2006 contacted this petitioner for supplying the educational certificate, who supplied the educational certificate in 2008, but those certificates were found to be forged when the employment was not provided to the informant and others. It is alleged that for providing the certificates Rs. 50,000/- to 80,000/- was paid to the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17133 of 2012 (3) dt.26-07-2012 2/2 petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the payment and for the cause of action arose in 2006 to 2008 the FIR has been lodged in 2011 when a statement has been made in para 10 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. 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 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul in connection with Supaul P.S. Case No. 185 of 2011, 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.