Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20120 of 2012 ====================================================== Sharwan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the basis of forged caste certificate the petitioner god appointed on the post of constable and on enquiry it was found that the petitioner belongs to a forward class and he has been suspended from the service and FIR has been lodged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the caste certificate issued by the Collector and S.D.O. has not been cancelled and without giving an opportunity to the petitioner the FIR has been lodged. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20120 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Mithanpura P.S. Case No. 45 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 471

Statute Text:
Section 471 of the Indian Penal Code. Using as genuine a forged document which is known to be forged. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had forged such document.