Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5439 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the P.D.S. dealer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the year 2003-04 the petitioner was supplied the grains under Sampurn Gramin Rojgar Scheme but he could not give account for 1482 quintals of rice and thereby misappropriated Rs. 20,30,874.30/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has filed a writ application being C.W.J.C. No. 19327 of 2011 against the notice of recovery which is pending. The petitioner undertakes to abide by the decision of the aforesaid writ application. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5439 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the fact that for the accusation of 2003-04, the case has been lodged in year 2011, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Koilwar P.S. Case No. 113 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.