Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17253 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Chandan Kumar son of Gajendra Singh, resident of village- Maharaj Bigha, P. S. Khijer Sharai, District Gaya. 2. Vikash Kumar son of Arvind Singh, resident of village- Maksudpur, P. S. Khijer Shari, District Gaya. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State 0f Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Manish Kumar No.2, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mrs. Anita Kumari Singh, Addl. P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA PRASAD VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Heard. The petitioners seek bail in a criminal prosecution registered under [STATUTE] . It is submitted that the petitioners are not named in the F.I.R. (Annexure-1) as accused, and though they are in judicial custody for more than three months, they have not been put on T.I. Parade till date and they have been remanded in the present case merely on the basis of suspicion and surmises. It is next submitted that originally the petitioners were made accused in connection with Soh Sarai P.S. Case No. 129 of 2011 and thereafter they have been remanded in the present case also besides few others cases. However, in the aforesaid Soh Sarai P.S. Case No. 129 of 2011, the petitioners have been granted bail by a Bench of this Court by order dated 22.02.2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 5173 of 2012 (Annexure-3). Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case, the prayer for bail is allowed. Let the above named petitioners be enlarged on bail on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17253 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10, 000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No. 221 of 2011, subject to conditions that : (A) One of the bailors must be government servant or close family members of the petitioners, who will file an affidavit in the court below showing his/her relationship with the petitioners, (B) if the petitioners are found involved in same and similar nature of cases in future, then in that case the informant/ prosecution shall be at liberty to file a petition for cancellation of the bail of the petitioners, and if such a petition is filed, the court below would be obliged to dispose of the same in accordance with law after giving opportunity of hearing to all concerned and (C) the petitioners shall make regular pairvi in the court below in the present case either by appearing themselves in person or through representation by their lawyer on each and every dates, and if on two consecutive dates petitioners fail to make pairvi, then the court below shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioners. BTiwary/- (Birendra Prasad Verma, 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.