Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42795 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Baban Prasad Sharma @ Baban Sharma 2. Dhruv Narayan Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of taking signature of the wife of the complainant on blank paper and getting the land of the complainant mutated in his favour. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the same cause of action Title Suit No. 623 of 2011 is pending between the complainant and the petitioners. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st, Saran at Chapra Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42795 of 2012 (2) dt.13-12-2012 2/2 in connection with Complaint Case No. 322C of 2012, 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.