Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15616 of 2012 ====================================================== Amrit Kalash .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.17580 of 2012 ====================================================== Rakesh Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.15618 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the Panchayat Mukhiya, Panchayat Rojgar Sewak and Technical Assistant are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the forestry plan no. 1/2020-22 to 15/2010-2011 in Rudauli Gram Panchayat under Bachhwara Block only 50% plantation was found and on the spot no handpump was found when no forest guard were present there. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15616 of 2012 (3) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 It is submitted by learned counsels appearing on behalf of Panchayat Mukhiya and Panchayat Rojgar Sewak that the plantation started in the year 2010 when the spot enquiry was done on 16.11.2011 hence 100% plantation could not have been found so far as non-presence of the head of the handpump is concerned, for the safety reasons, heads of handpump were being removed in the night. It is submitted on behalf of Technical Assistant that he had no financial powers in implementation of the scheme. Moreover, he was posted at the relevant place only for two months. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation with regard to non-plantation which was found 50% after more than one year of plantation, 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, Begusarai in connection with Bachhwara P.S. Case No. 05 of 2012, 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.