Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5293 of 2012 ====================================================== Niraj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.6368 of 2012 ====================================================== Thakur Pradip Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-02-2012 Petitioners being Secretary and Assistant of the school are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Secretary did not supply the pass book to 48 students, hence misappropriation of fund was suspected. Other accusation is that godrej almirah was given for repair but the same was neither returned to the school or to the project office and in place of Singer sewing machine, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5293 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Sandhya sewing machine was made available. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that they will supply the respective pass books, godrej almirah and Singer sewing machine within a period of one months of their release. Considering the aforesaid stand of the petitioners, let the petitioners namely 1. Niraj Kumar 2. Thakur Pradip Singh, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Biharsharif at Nalanda in connection with Laheri P.S. Case No. 101 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.