Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11348 of 2012 ====================================================== Gunjeshwar Kumar Verma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar Through Vigilance .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the Vigilance. The petitioner being the retired Block Development Officer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 13(2) r/w 13(1) (c)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The accusation against the petitioner is that he being the then B.D.O. by abusing official position made payment of old age pension to the fictitious persons and thereby caused loss to the State exchequer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was transferred from the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11348 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2/3 office on 13.07.1982 and three months thereafter the money with regard to the old age pension was received and hence, he cannot be held responsible for the same. The petitioner has retired on 30.06.2006 when the charge-sheet has been submitted in 2007. The petitioner’s earlier anticipatory bail application was rejected on 04.08.2008 vide Cr. Misc. No. 12808 of 2008 when all these arguments were available to the petitioner. Hence, in this view of the matter, this Court is not inclined to revise earlier order. However, keeping in view of the fact that the investigation is complete and petitioner has retired from service long ago, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail by the learned court below if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Vigilance (Patna) P.S. Case No. 09 of 2000 corresponding to Special Case No. 12 of 2000 pending in the court of learned Special Judge, Vigilance-I, Patna. With the aforesaid observation, this Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11348 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 3/3 application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.