Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15558 of 2012 ====================================================== Meghnath Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-04-2012 Petitioner being Ex-Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is that the Block Development Officer got enquiry conducted through Block Statistical Supervisor with regard to scheme Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 of 2006-07 when some irregularities were found in the installation of solar lights. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the installation of solar lights the F.I.R. has been lodged in 2012 when in a subsequent enquiry the District Panchayat Officer, Vaishali has suggested that the solar lights were installed in pursuance to the resolution of the Gram Sabha and the F.I.R. has been lodged on the basis of enquiry report of the Block Statistical Officer who has no authority to conduct enquiry against the Mukhiya. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15558 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the report of the District Panchayat Officer, let the petitioner namely Meghnath Bhagat, 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 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur in connection with Vaishali P.S. Case No. 28 of 2012. 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.