Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34968 of 2012 (3) dt.06-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34968 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 06-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Ward Member is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner to have identified the fictitious beneficiaries under the Indira Awas shcme, taken Rs.24,000/- in the name of a person, though, actual beneficiary was Mintu Devi and subsequently also benefits under the Indira Awas scheme was taken by this petitioner by changing the name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the money withdrawn in the name of Mintu Devi was deposited. The petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs.24,000/- before the learned court below, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34968 of 2012 (3) dt.06-12-2012 which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme by the learned court below, which will be subject to the result of the case. On deposit of the aforesaid amount, 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 twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Gaya in connection with Guraru P.S. Case No. 11 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.