Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6393 of 2012 ====================================================== Surendra Nath Thakur @ Surendra Nath Tahkur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.6437 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.9974 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamlesh Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 26-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the Panchayat Mukhiya, Panchayat Sevak and Panchayat Rojgar Sevak are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing irregularity Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6393 of 2012 (3) dt.26-07-2012 2/3 in providing job card to the BPL and APL families and misappropriating Rs. 15 Lakhs. It is also alleged that they got approved allotment to those persons who have already constructed houses and installed solar lights of a very poor quality. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusations are not specific. It has not been alleged that in which year the irregularities have been committed and the FIR does not bear when the BPL, APL list was prepared and the solar lights were installed. The aforesaid contentions of the petitioners have not been controverted by the learned APP after going through the case diary. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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, Buxar in connection with Brahmpur (Krishnabrahm) P.S. Case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6393 of 2012 (3) dt.26-07-2012 3/3 No. 16 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.