Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2574 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2574 of 2012 ====================================================== Ganga Ram Chaurasia & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 25-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they received Rs. 3,000/- and Rs. 2,000/- from the beneficiaries of Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted that the petitioners are neither the sanctioning nor disbursing authority. Moreover, the payments ultimately have been made through respective account of the beneficiaries. F.I.R. has been lodged with inordinate delay. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Ganga Ram Chaurasia and Chandeshwar Pandey, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2574 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 with Angarghat P.S. Case No. 77 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Dalsingsarai, Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.