Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41365 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramakant Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-11-2012 Petitioner being Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of misappropriating the money under Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that list of beneficiaries under the scheme was prepared by the Panchayat Sewak who has already been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Ramakant Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41365 of 2012 (2) dt.30-11-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Sangrampur P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012. The bail bonds of the petitioner will be accepted on filing affidavit that he will cooperate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.