Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29008 of 2012 ====================================================== Veer Chandra Singh @ Veer Chandra Prasad Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 24-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Headmaster of the school is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Sections 7 and 13(2) read with Sections 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It is alleged that the complainant being the Siksha Mitra in the Panchayat school was absent from 13.04.2004 to 10.06.2004 and thereafter he went to school to give his joining when the petitioner demanded Rs. 1,000/- for his joining and for the payment of honorarium of Rs. 4,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- was also demanded. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the cause of action between 13.04.2004 to 10.06.2004, the complaint was lodged by the complainant in December, 2005 which was referred to the Vigilance and then consequently after Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29008 of 2012 (3) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 enquiry, the Vigilance lodged the present case on 22.09.2010. Considering the delayed lodging of the complaint and the fact that the dispute is for joining at payment of the contractual employment of eleven months which is no longer in the existence at present, let the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge, Vigilance, North Bihar, Muzaffarpur in connection with Vigilance P.S. Case No. 68 of 2010, Special Case No. 26 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 467

Statute Text:
Section 467 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery of a valuable security, will or authority to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive any money, etc. Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.