Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6948 of 2012 ====================================================== Ganesh Chandra Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that by creating forged power of attorney with regard to the land of the informant the sale deed has been executed by the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that part of the power of attorney reflects that informant received Rs. 1,55,000/-. There is nothing on record to suggest that informant denies receiving of the money as incorporated in the power of attorney. Considering the accusation arising out of civil dispute between the parties, let the petitioner namely Ganesh Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6948 of 2012 (3) dt.21-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Chandra Sharma, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Khagaul P.S. Case No. 100 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.