Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23004 of 2012 ====================================================== Shanti Devi .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.26511 of 2012 ====================================================== Baban Prasad Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of transferring the land of the informant by impersonating her. It is submitted that the matter has been settled before the Lok Adalat and the informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Shanti Devi, Baban Prasad Singh and Satyendra Sharma be released on bail in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23004 of 2012 (4) dt.17-08-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Aurangabad Town P.S. Case No. 216 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.