Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31919 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Priya Ranjan Pandey @ Priya Ranjan @ Seth Pandey 2. Subodh Kumar @ Subodh Singh @ Boubi Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.32441 of 2012 ====================================================== Narendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of not making payments to the labourors under MANREGA scheme. Petitioners are the Chairman and Manager of PACS and Panchyat Secretary. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of Chairman and Manager of PACS that they were no way involved in execution of the scheme in MANREGA and the case has been lodged simply because the petitioners lodged a complaint being Complaint Case No. 403 of 2012 on 18.06.2012 against the present informant who is a police officer and the officer-in-charge of the Ramgarh P.S. and others when accusation is not specific. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31919 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Halsi P.S. Case No. 54 of 2012. The bail bonds of the petitioners will be accepted on filing affidavit that they will co-operate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioners. 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.