Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40746 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Agamkuan P.S. Case No. 224 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. The FIR was lodged on recovery of fake currency notes, stamps, NSCs and KVPs and demand drafts etc. It is alleged that part of the recovery has been made from the room of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not present when the recovery was made since he was away to the native village 15 days prior to the seizure. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40746 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 489D

Statute Text:
Section 489D of the Indian Penal Code. Making or possessing machinery, instrument or material for forging or counterfeiting currency-notes or bank-notes. Whoever makes, or performs any part of the process of making, or buys of sells or disposes of, or has in his possession, any machinery, instrument of material for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for forging or counterfeiting any currency-note or bank-note, 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.