Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35404 of 2012 (3) dt.18-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35404 of 2012 ====================================================== Sri Prasad Yadav …….. Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that under the ‘Chief Minister Rehabilitation Scheme’ for the flood victims, the name of the informant at serial no. 38 was sent but Rs.25,000/- was paid to one Sitli Devi wife of Sitaram Thakur instead of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant and the other beneficiaries were given the benefits and the name of husband of the informant and Sitli Devi is same when the beneficiaries claim to have received money, whose names were transmitted to the bank by the petitioner and was identified by local Sarpanch. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35404 of 2012 (3) dt.18-12-2012 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned ACJM, Jhanjharpur, District - Madhubani in connection with Lakhnour P.S. Case No. 03 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.