IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Cr.Misc. No.11807 of 2010
Deoki Devi, wife of Keshav Prasad Mehta, the elected
Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat, Pama, P.S. Sour Bazar
(Patarghat O.P.) District- Saharsa. ..............Petitioner.
Versus
The State of Bihar .............................Opposite Party.
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3. 05. 07. 2010. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.
The petitioner being a lady Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat
is apprehending her arrest registered for offences under Sections
406, 409, 467, 468, 471 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code.
It is alleged that petitioner demanded Rs. 5,000/- for the
purpose of sanction of house under Indira Aawas Scheme. It is
further alleged that Rs. 24,000/- of the informant’s son was
withdrawn by placing some one on identification of one Indradeo
Sada and Jai Narayan Yadav.
It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner
that allegation of withdrawing the amount is not against the
petitioner. Moreover, informant’s son has got the entire amount and
has already constructed the house, petition to this effect has been
filed vide Annexure 2 and 3.
Considering the fact that the informant and his son
retracted from initial averment and the petitioner being a lady, in
the event of her arrest/surrender in the court below within a period
of four weeks from today, the above named petitioner shall be
released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten
thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the
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satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa, in connection
with Sour Bazar P.S. Case No. 163/08, subject to the conditions as
laid down under Section 438 (2) of Cr.P.C.
m.p. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)