Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26976 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramesh Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-08-2012 Petitioner being the then Block Development Officer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the year 2007 the informant applied for Indira Awas when his name was in the BPL list, when it is alleged that the Mukhiya in connivance with the Panchayat Secretary withdrew the amount. The petitioner was posted as Block Development Officer and his name did not figure in the F.I.R. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the accusation of 2007, the F.I.R. was lodged in 2009 when there is no specific accusation against the petitioner in the First Information Report. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26976 of 2012 (2) dt.02-08-2012 2 / 2 2 Ramesh Jha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Sikty P.S. Case No. 40 of 2009. Shageer/- (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.