Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3585 of 2012 ====================================================== Motiur Rahman .... .... 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 03-02-2012 Petitioner being Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of misappropriating Rs. 27,450/- in scheme No. 2 of 2000-01. A statement has been made in para 8 of the petition that petitioner was for the first time elected as Mukhiya in 2006, but it appears that work has still not been completed. Considering the fact that the scheme is of 2000-01, let the petitioner namely Motiur Rahman, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3585 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 S.D.J.M.(West) Muzaffarpur in connection with Karja P.S. Case No. 21 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.