Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7765 of 2012 ====================================================== Bideh Kishore .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.8990 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.9806 of 2012 ====================================================== Lal Mohan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.15060 of 2012 ====================================================== Kailu Ram @ Niranjan Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.13107 of 2012 ====================================================== Bijay Narayan Pathak .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7765 of 2012 (3) dt.19-04-2012 2/4 .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 19-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that one Ashok Paswan persuaded the informant for getting the loan under BPL scheme on assurance that loan amount will be subsequently liquidated. In the FIR the accusation was levelled against Ashok Paswan, Sanjeev Singh, Pankaj Rai and Ram Binay Tanti that they asked the informant to put signature on some paper. Subsequently the informant was offered only Rs.30,000/- against the sanction of Rs.1,00,000/-. The petitioners are not named in the first information report. It is submitted on behalf of petitioner Bideh Kishore that who was Revenue Karamchari, who issued four rent receipts but rent receipts in favour of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7765 of 2012 (3) dt.19-04-2012 3/4 informant were not issued by this petitioner. It is submitted on behalf of petitioner Mahesh Kumar that who was cashier of Punjab National Bank and the amount was sanctioned by the other authority. He only made the payment in pursuance to the sanction order It is submitted on behalf of petitioner Lal Mohan Kumar that he alleged to have identified the beneficiaries of the loan. It is submitted on behalf of petitioner Kailu Ram @ Niranjan Ram that he was a co-villager and his name sprang up on the confession of the co-accused and he was also in lieu of the main accused persons. It is submitted by learned senior counsel on behalf of petitioner Bijay Narayan Pathak that he being the Circle Officer issued land possession certificate on the basis of the report of the Karamchari. All the petitioners were not named in the first information report and the thrust of accusation is against FIR named accused when only Ashok Paswan has been charge-sheeted and investigation is pending against these petitioners. Ashok Paswan has Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7765 of 2012 (3) dt.19-04-2012 4/4 been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 1050 of 2012, I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Maranchi P.S. Case No. 73 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the regular bail application of the petitioners preferably on the same day. With the aforesaid observation, these applications are disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.