Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15728 of 2012 ====================================================== Birendra Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that in order to declare Ravi Kumar his son juvenile Rupaspur P.S. Case No. 136 of 2011 (Sessions Trial No. 1413 of 2011) the petitioner filed certain documents before learned court below which was prima facie forged when the date of birth of petitioner’s son in the mark- sheet of C.B.S.E. is 10.10.1994 and in the admit card of B.S.E.B. is 01.06.1995 whereas in the school admission form the date of birth of the petitioner’s son is 10.10.1990. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15728 of 2012 (2) dt.01-05-2012 2/3 It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that on the basis of alleged document Ravi Kumar has still not been declared juvenile and there is nothing on the record to suggest that the alleged documents have been verified and this petitioner was not an accused in the aforesaid criminal case. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that this petitioner submitted the alleged documents before the learned court below. Considering the fact that the genuineness or otherwise of the alleged document has to be tested by the concerned court where the document has been submitted, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15728 of 2012 (2) dt.01-05-2012 3/3 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Rupaspur P.S. Case No. 188 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 420

Statute Text:
Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code. Cheating and there by dishonestly inducing delivery of property, or the making, alteration or destruction of a valuable security. Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.