Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18445 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Kr. Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 68(A) of the Copy Right Act. It is alleged by the informant being the Assistant of Biri Merchant Private Limited, Saluganj that one Dhanraj Chaudhary and Birendra Kumar @ Biru by using the forge wrapper, label, sticker and hologram of the company used to get the local biri sold. The petitioner was not named in the FIR. The name of the petitioner sprang up on the confession of the co-accused. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no recovery from the petitioner and thrust of accusation is against the FIR named accused persons. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18445 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda in connection with Deepnagar P.S. Case No. 227 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.