Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2429 of 2012 ====================================================== Surendra Pandit .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.2560 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Jamaluddin @ Jamaluddin .... .... 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 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the Panchayat Sewak and husband of the Mukhiya are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of extracting money from the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2429 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2 / 2 2 beneficiaries of Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the scheme was sanctioned in the year 2007 when the money was disbursed in the year 2011 when the case has been lodged and subsequently the informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 the 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, Katihar In connection with Barari P.S. Case No. 136 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Amrendra/- (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.