Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1602 of 2012 ====================================================== Jay Krishna Jha .... .... 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 19-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Initially the petitioner filed a complaint against the informant alleging the irregularities while his name was deleted from the beneficiaries list of Mukhyamantri Awas Scheme. The said complaint was subsequently registered as a police case when during investigation it was found that it was this petitioner who persuaded the other beneficiaries to give Rs. 5,000/- to the Supervisor for getting the benefits under the Mukhyamantri Awas Scheme. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1602 of 2012 (2) dt.19-01-2012 2/2 Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani in connection with Benipatti P.S. Case No. 168/2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra (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.