Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6665 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1) (iv) (ix) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of misappropriating the money with regard to the Indira Awas scheme as the petitioner used to realize in lieu of the Gram Panchayat Mukhiya Rs.6,000/- to 10,000/- from the different beneficiaries under the Indira Awas scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the money used to be given to the beneficiaries under the Indira Awas scheme through Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6665 of 2012 (3) dt.07-05-2012 2/2 their respective accounts and most of the beneficiaries have not alleged anything against the petitioner. It is submitted by learned APP that enquiry was conducted under the Chairmanship of the D.D.C. when it was found that the money has been misappropriated with regard to the Indira Awas scheme. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. However, it is submitted that Gram Panchayat Mukhiya has been granted regular bail. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Sirdalla P.S. Case No. 144 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.