Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9009 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9009 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Zakir @ Zakir Hussain .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of sanctioning twice under the Indira Aawas Scheme. It is alleged against the petitioner that the same favour was made to the petitioner’s wife. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner divorced his wife in the year 2001 when the amount was sanctioned in the year 2010-2011. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9009 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga in Darbhanga Sadar P.S.case No.377 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. B.Kr./- (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.