Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24677 of 2012 ====================================================== Minta Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.25595 of 2012 ====================================================== Avinash Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-07-2012 Petitioners are is apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they fraudulently got their names included in the BPL list and received Rs. 30,000/- when in spite of letter issued to the petitioners, the money has not been returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that their names are still in the BPL list and it has not been deleted and they have not been named in the F.I.R. and the persons who were named in the F.I.R. have been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Minta Devi 2. Avinash Chaudhary, in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24677 of 2012 (2) dt.23-07-2012 2 / 2 2 their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Makhdumpur P.S. Case No. 352 of 2011. 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.