Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45021 of 2011 ====================================================== Santu Baitha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 05-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner being the Ex-Mukhiya that he realizes Rs. 3100/- for sanctioning the money under the Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that Annexure-2 reflects that the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version by saying that present Mukhiya misappropriated the documents having the signature of the informants by lodging this case. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Thakraha (Bhitaha) P.S. Case No. 163/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.