Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41552 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Singh @ Manoj Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioner is of receiving the money of the share of informant in land acquisition proceeding. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he received the money with regard to his share of land when it is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the petitioner filed a forged affidavit on behalf of the informant that if the land acquisition is released in favour of the petitioner then Radha Devi being the informant has no objection. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for six months, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41552 of 2012 (2) dt.03-12-2012 2/2 furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Dighwara P.S. Case No. 63 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will only be confirmed by learned court below on verification of the fact that the petitioner has not received the share of the money with regard to land acquisition proceeding of Radha Devi. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.