Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23128 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Nath Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.23779 of 2012 ====================================================== Tej Narayan Ojha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 06-11-2012 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] . It is alleged that the petitioners being the Panchayat Secretary and the Mukhiya disbursed Rs.20,000/- under Indira Awas scheme to one Lakhminia Devi in 2001-02 when there is no such person in village Nemowa when one Hira Hal Kohar was provided only Rs.14,000/- against the sanctioned amount of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23128 of 2012 (3) dt.06-11-2012 2/2 Rs.20,000/- in 2003-04. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the voter list suggests that Lakhminia Devi is the resident of village Kharahatanr and the payments were made on the said address when documents reflects that Rs.20,000/- was paid to Hira Lal Kohar. Considering the fact that for the cause of action of 2001-02 and 2003-04 the FIR has been lodged in 2011, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Buxar in connection with Simari P.S. Case No. 171 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: 471

Statute Text:
Section 471 of the Indian Penal Code. Using as genuine a forged document which is known to be forged. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had forged such document.