Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24488 of 2012 ====================================================== Paramhansh Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Headmaster of the school is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant, who claims to be the Principal of the Sanskrit College, that the petitioner has no requisite qualification for holding the post of Headmaster and in connivance with the Secretary and the President huge amount of mid-day meal has been misappropriated. It is also alleged that the accused persons are hatching conspiracy to grab the land of the school. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant himself running a fictitious Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24488 of 2012 (2) dt.01-08-2012 2/2 college when college in question is not in existence and Title Suit No. 25 of 2009 was filed by the petitioner as the informant was trying to grab the properties of the school in question. The report of the Education Department is also against the informant. It is further submitted that the Secretary and President have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below. Considering the accusation in the background of litigated relationship between the petitioner and the informant, 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, Buxar in connection with Buxar (T) P.S. Case No. 218 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: 474

Statute Text:
Section 474 of the Indian Penal Code. Having possession of a document, knowing it to be forged, with intent to use it as genuine; If the document is one of the description mentioned in section 466 of the Indian Penal Code. Whoever has in his possession any document, knowing the same to be forged, and intending that the same shall fraudulently or dishonestly be used as genuine, shall, if the document is one of the description mentioned in section 466 of this Code, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the document is one of the description mentioned in section 467, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.