Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8634 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Prasad Verma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 28-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The FIR has been instituted on the complaint of one candidate who failed to get the appointment on the post of Panchayat Teacher. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the order of appointment was challenged before the Appellate Tribunal and the Tribunal did not choose to interfere. Subsequently the order of the Appellate Tribunal has been challenged in a writ proceeding. Learned counsel for the Vigilance has submitted that during enquiry, it has been found that the selected candidate’s Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8634 of 2012 (3) dt.28-03-2012 2/2 marks has been inflated which prima facie suggests that fraudulent appointment has been done. Since there is a provision under the Appointment Rules for making objections and filing the case before the Tribunal constituted for the said purpose and the Tribunals has tested the legality of the appointment, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or 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 Special Judge, Vigilance, North Bihar, Muzaffarpur in connection with Special Case No. 10 of 2009, Vigilance P.S. Case No. 20 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 466

Statute Text:
Section 466 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery of a record of a court of Justice or of a Registrar of Births, etc., kept by a public servant. Whoever forges a document, purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court of Justice, or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial, or a register kept by a public servant as such, or a certificate or document purporting to be made by a public servant in his official capacity, or an authority to institute or defend a suit, or to take any proceedings therein, or to confess judgment, or a power of attorney, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.