Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33568 of 2012 (3) dt.30-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33568 of 2012 ====================================================== Sukdeo Paswan @ Shukdeo Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.37122 of 2012 ====================================================== Prem Pratap Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.37867 of 2012 ====================================================== Bijendra Kumar Das @ Bijendre Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.37234 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajima Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 30-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Junior Engineer, Ex-Mukhiya, Post-master and Panchayat Rojgar Sewak are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33568 of 2012 (3) dt.30-11-2012 offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in Scheme Nos. 2/10-11, 7/10-11 and 1/11-12 the work has been taken from the labourers, whose accounts were not opened. All the three schemes relates to the plantation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the complaint was made by the present Mukhiya maliciously when the enquiry was made and the thrust of accusation was with regard to the taking work from the labourers, whose accounts were not opened in the post office when it is claimed by petitioners that the payments have still not been made. It is further submitted that the enquiry has been made after several months of the plantation when against the Junior Engineer it is alleged that he only delayed in making measurement. Considering the nature of irregularity and undertaking of the petitioners that each will deposit Rs.25,000/- before the learned court below, which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme by the learned court below in connection with the present case, which Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33568 of 2012 (3) dt.30-11-2012 will be subject to the result of the case, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Katihar in connection with Pranpur P.S. Case No. 108 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioners shall be accepted on deposit of the aforesaid amount. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 419

Statute Text:
Section 419 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating by personation. Whoever cheats by personation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.