Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7760 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7760 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Yadav & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 29.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners are driver and khalasi of a truck and are languishing in jail custody since 5.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] on the charges that some fake documents were recovered from cabin of their truck and they were carrying coal which had been lifted on the basis of the fake documents. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that in a case of almost similar nature one Sunil Kumar Singh has already been granted privilege of bail by another bench of this court and moreover, coal is a free sale item. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners, Shankar Yadav and Dularchand Singh, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in Giriak P.S. Case no. 180/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.