Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30645 of 2012 ====================================================== Vishwanath Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of receiving Rs. 4,80,000/- for distribution to the beneficiaries under Draught Relief Scheme, out of which Rs. 4,75,800/- was distributed to the beneficiaries and rest of the amount has already been deposited in Panchayat Office, Tengraha Parihar for which Nazir of Kumar Khand block has granted receipt and considering the same other accuse persons have been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 6010 of 2012 and 982 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30645 of 2012 (2) dt.28-08-2012 2/2 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, Madhepura in connection with Kumarkhand P.S. Case No. 96 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.