Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10738 of 2012 ====================================================== Mst. Champa & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is that petitioners being not entitled, got their names recommended for receiving benefits under Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that before the benefits could be conferred, the mistake was detected by the authority when no payments were made to the petitioners and considering the same co-accused Sheo Shankar Prasad has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 27073 of 2011. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Mst. Champa 2. Husanbano 3. Jaytoonnesha, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10738 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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, West Champaran in connection with Majhaulia P.S. Case No. 73 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.