Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22486 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Prasad Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Clerk-cum-Cashier of the State Bank of India is apprehending arrest in connection with Banka P.S. Case No. 411 of 2008 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur. It is alleged that from 17.10.2002 to 11.02.2006, Rs. 26, 22,065/- with regard to the registration office, was not deposited in the treasury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no challan was submitted before the bank hence there was no occasion for the bank to transmit the challans to the treasury. It is further submitted that thrust of accusation is against the officers of the treasury office and illegality was recorded during the audit then the FIR was lodged when the bank never Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22486 of 2012 (3) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 initiated any proceeding against the petitioner. It appears that other accused Rajiv Kumar Singh has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 36798 of 2011. This Court sees no 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: 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.