Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28205 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Singh (Mukhiya) .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the documents of welfare schemes of public illegally been kept in the Panchayat Bhawan were seized when the Panchayat Secretary was apprehended on spot. It is submitted that the Panchayat Secretary has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 23930 of 2012 by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Amnour P.S. Case No. 47 of 2012 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28205 of 2012 (3) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Chapra, Saran. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.