Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23236 of 2012 ====================================================== Pintu Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Rahui (Bhagan Bigha) P.S. Case No. 302 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47A of the Excise Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif. From the house of Bhagwat Yadav, machine for preparing country made liquor, spirit and wrappers were recovered. It is alleged against the petitioner and others that they, being the associates of Bhagwat Yadav, fled away from the place of seizure. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that other accused has been granted regular bail by learned court below. If other accused has been granted regular bail, I see no Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23236 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 465

Statute Text:
Section 465 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery. Whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.