Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8640 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Baitha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner being the son of the Mukhiya took Rs. 3,000/- in March, 2011 when the informant received Rs.30,000/- in March, 2011 as first installment under Indira Awas Scheme for which the FIR was lodged on 30.10.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner when the petitioner’s father got defeated in the Panchayat Election, hence due to political rivalry the present case has been lodged and there is no proof of payment to the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8640 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2/2 event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Thakaraha (Bhitaha) P.S. Case No. 162 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.