Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42126 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Kishori Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he in league with the Panchayat Sarpanch fraudulently appointed Nilama Devi and Ranu Devi as Panchayat Sewika. The informant is the Child Development Project Officer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the persons who have been appointed as Sewika were granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 40441 of 2012 when it was claimed by them that they are still working and their appointment has not been challenged till date. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42126 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Bettiah (Muffassil) P.S. Case No. 251 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 419

Statute Text:
Section 419 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating by personation. Whoever cheats by personation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.