Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16871 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Saukat Ara 2. Jiaul Haque 3. Md. Jamaluddin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the complainant and her daughter-in- law have been sanctioned Rs. 30,000/- each under Indira Awas Scheme when the petitioners being the Panchayat Mukhiya, her son and her husband took thumb impression of the complainant and her daughter-in-law to withdraw Rs. 20,000/- each from their account when Rs. 7,000/- was kept as commission and Rs. 13,000/- each of the complainant and her daughter-in-law was kept by the petitioners for making construction of the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the money was withdrawn in the year 2010 when the complaint was filed in the year 2011 and the said complaint has only been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16871 of 2012 (2) dt.08-05-2012 2/2 filed by the complainant to save the skin as in spite of receiving money she has not constructed the house. Considering the fact that the amount was withdrawn with the thumb impression of the complainant and her daughter- in-law, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with C.A. No. 1363 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.