Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16970 of 2012 ====================================================== Pankaj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-05-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that after death of the real owner Shyam Sundar Gindoria some fictitious person impersonated him and got the sale deed executed on 15.04.2010 in favour of Smt. Ratan Kumar Devi. Petitioner is one of the witness of the sale deed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that actually the sale deed was executed by the actual owner and the sale deed has still not been challenged in any civil proceeding. Considering the fact that petitioner was only a witness to the sale deed, let the petitioner namely Pankaj Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16970 of 2012 (2) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 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 S.D.J.M., Araria in connection with Complaint Case No. 1658C of 2010. Shageer/- (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.