Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15175 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kishun Ram @ Srikishun Ram 2. Sunita Devi 3. Rubi Devi 4. Kaushila Devi 5. Anita Devi 6. Munni Devi 7. Bidati Devi @ Bidanti Devi 8. Kalawati Devi, wife of Kishun Ram 9. Kalawati Devi, wife of Genju Ram 10. Manju Devi 11. Shanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 24-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioners is of getting the benefits under the Indira Awas scheme twice. The petitioners are ready to deposit Rs.35,000/- each before the learned court below, which will be invested by the learned court below in some fixed deposit scheme connection with the present case, which will be subject to the result of the case. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15175 of 2012 (4) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 On deposit of aforesaid amount, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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, Gopalganj in connection with Jadopur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.