Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9743 of 2012 ====================================================== Aftab Imam @ Aftab Alam .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 26-04-2012 Petitioner being panchayat sewak is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of misappropriating Rs. 25,87, 200/- with regard to plantation work. The enquiry was conducted when complaint was made in the janta darbar of the District Magistrate. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that plantation was done between 03.10.2009 to 03.02.2010 whereas F.I.R. was lodged on 25.03.2011. It is further submitted that petitioner was only the executing agent for the plantation and for protection and irrigation of the plantation the petitioner was not authorized and so far as plantation is concerned, the panchayat Mukhiya and Programme Officer submitted a report that plantation was done Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9743 of 2012 (3) dt.26-04-2012 2 / 2 2 when the present verification was done after more than a year of plantation on 25.03.2011. Hence thrust of accusation is against the panchayat Mukhiya who has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 38432 of 2011. Considering the fact that panchayat Mukhiya has been granted anticipatory bail, let the petitioner namely Aftab Imam @ Aftab Alam, 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. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Koransarai P.S. Case No. 15 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.