Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34273 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Nandlal Paswan 2. Bir Chandra Paswan 3. Achchelal Rai 4. Gajendra Rai 5. Chhabila Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, complainant and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that land of the complainant has been sold by one Vidya Sagar Sharma in favour of petitioner Nos. 1, 4 and 5 when petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 are the witnesses of the sale deed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are the bona fide purchasers and the thrust of accusation is against Vidya Sagar Sharma. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34273 of 2012 (2) dt.13-09-2012 2 / 2 2 complainant that earlier a dispute was arose with regard to execution of will and in a probate case Vidya Sagar Sharma was a party when the sale of the land was restrained, but in spite of that the sale deed was executed. Considering the thrust of accusation against Vidya Sagar Sharma, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 2724 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.