Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28056 of 2012 ====================================================== Aminullah Khan @ Aminullah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . An employee of the District Record Room, Gaya made a complaint with regard to interpolation in the records when enquiry was set up and in pursuance to that, the raid was conducted in the house of the house of one Mukesh Kumar, when certified copies of the various documents and original chirkut were recovered when it is alleged that Mukesh Kumar was committing forgery in league with this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that considering the fact that the recovery of the documents constitutes no offence, Mukesh Kumar has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 16898 of 2012 when there is no recovery from the petitioner. A statement has been made in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28056 of 2012 (2) dt.08-08-2012 2/2 petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Civil Lines P.S. Case No. 91 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioners shall be accepted on filing of the affidavit by the petitioners before the learned court below to the effect that they will regularly co-operate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O., concerned. Non-co-operation in the investigation by the petitioner will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. 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.