Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3145 of 2012 ====================================================== Afsana Parween .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 31-01-2012 Petitioner being Mukhiya of the gram panchayat is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he was collecting Rs. 2000/- from each of the cyclone effected beneficiaries and since informant could not give bribe, she was not given the relief fund. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that subsequently the informant filed an application for withdrawal of the case and has retracted from initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Afsana Parween, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3145 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Purnea in connection with Amour P.S. Case No. 41 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.