Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17133 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Kumar @ Hare Ram @ Rajesh Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 26-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the husband of the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that the informant and others for getting appointment as Panchayat Teacher in 2006 contacted this petitioner for supplying the educational certificate, who supplied the educational certificate in 2008, but those certificates were found to be forged when the employment was not provided to the informant and others. It is alleged that for providing the certificates Rs. 50,000/- to 80,000/- was paid to the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17133 of 2012 (3) dt.26-07-2012 2/2 petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the payment and for the cause of action arose in 2006 to 2008 the FIR has been lodged in 2011 when a statement has been made in para 10 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul in connection with Supaul P.S. Case No. 185 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.