Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11557 of 2012 ====================================================== Chitranjan Prasad Sharma .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.14104 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Renu Devi@Renu Kumari & Anr .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Panchayat Secretary, Panchayat Mukhiya and husband of Panchayat Mukhiya are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they collected Rs. 10,000/- from the prospective beneficiaries of Indira Awas Scheme. The petitioners are ready to deposit Rs. 10,000/- each before the learned court below which will be invested in some Fixed Deposit Scheme which will be subject to result of the case. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11557 of 2012 (2) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Chitranjan Prasad Sharma, Smt. Renu Devi @ Renu Kumari and Manoj Bhagat, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bihpur P.S. Case No. 250 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Naugachhiya, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.