ORDER :

Petitioner has approached this Court, invoking provisions of Section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure (in short ‘Cr.PC’), seeking regular bail in case FIR No. 323 of 2017 dated 13.12.2017, registered under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 170, 201 and 120-B of Indian Penal Code in Police Station Sadar Hamirpur, District Hamirpur.

2. Status report stands filed wherein it is stated that FIR in present case was registered on the basis of joint complaint dated 13.12.2017, submitted by complainants Ashish Kumar, Nitin Verma, Pooja Devi, Surjit Kumar and Suresh Kumar to the Superintendent of Police, Hamirpur alleging therein that petitioner Raj Verma and co-accused Anupama, in criminal conspiracy with each other had cheated the complainants and had extorted money from them by impersonating Raj Verma as Senior CEO in Reserve Bank of India with assurance that on payment of money to accused persons, complainants shall be posted against some good Government posts and further that complainants were made to believe that accused persons shall manage good job for them and thus believing the accused persons that they will help them in interview, providing job on payment of money in lacs to acc