Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25444 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahesh Prasad Mehta .... .... 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 Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the scholarship money of the students between period 2007-08 to 2008-09. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation, the accusation was found false against the petitioner and final form was submitted when only Panchayat Secretary was charge sheeted but differing with the same, the cognizance has been taken against the petitioner also. Considering the fact that during investigation, the accusation was found false, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25444 of 2012 (3) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Birpur in connection with Balua Bazar (Birpur) P.S. Case No. 56 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.