Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28918 of 2012 ====================================================== Ambika Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 22-11-2012 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 misappropriating the scholarship amount of the students between the period 2007-08. The withdrawal of the scholarship amount was made on 14.05.2008 and 18.05.2008. The petitioner has brought on record the document to suggest that the petitioner joined as Panchayat Secretary in the alleged Panchayat on 20.02.2009. Considering the aforesaid facts and the undertaking of petitioner that he will deposit Rs.25,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28918 of 2012 (4) dt.22-11-2012 2/2 before the learned court below, which will be invested by the learned court below in some fixed deposit scheme in connection with present case, which will be subject to the result of the case, 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 CJM, Aurangabad in connection with Baroon P.S. Case No. 199 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 467

Statute Text:
Section 467 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery of a valuable security, will or authority to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive any money, etc. Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.