Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10828 of 2012 ====================================================== Binod Kumar Jha .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== ==================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-04-2012 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] . The accusation is of installing 42 solar lights which were found during investigation to be sub-standard and non-functioning. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on the orders of Mukhiya purchases were being made and the petitioner worked on the orders of Mukhiya and Mukhiya has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below vide A.B.P. No. 349 of 2011 on 29.02.2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10828 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 2 / 2 2 court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Karandey P.S. Case No. 37 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Sheikhpura, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.