Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39485 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Baitha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-10-2012 Petitioner being son of ex-panchayat mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner realized Rs. 3100/- from the informant on promise to get the amount of Rs. 30,000/- under Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that informant has filed an application before learned Court below to the effect that she was forced to file the present complaint at the behest of the present Mukhiya and other panchayat representatives. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Umesh Baitha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39485 of 2012 (2) dt.17-10-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Thakraha (Bhitaha) P.S. Case No. 161 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.