Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20133 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Kumar @ Arun Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The FIR was lodged in the year 2007 by Ramashray Kumar Mahto alleging that one Sudhir Yadav and Sunita Devi withdrew Rs. 24,000/- under Indira Awas Scheme fraudulently by claiming themselves as husband and wife whereas they were Dewar and Bhabhi. The petitioner was not named in the FIR, his name subsequently sprang up as the introducer of Sudhir Yadav while opening the alleged bank account. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the investigation is still pending and the accused, whose hands was suspected in the case, has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. NO. 4186 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20133 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2/2 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Begusarai in connection with Begusarai Muffasil P.S. Case No. 09 of 2007, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.