Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.447 of 2012 ====================================================== Dev Narain Tanti .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 14-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 09.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is that the petitioner being the employee of the railway was running co-operative in which the informant deposited Rs. 3,75,000/-. The petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs. 1,50,000/- within a period of three month of the release before the learned court below which will be invested in some fix deposit schemes in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the fact that the petitioner is a retired Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.447 of 2012 (3) dt.14-02-2012 2 / 2 2 employee, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with East Colony P.S. Case No. 34 of 2010. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally by the learned court below till deposit of the aforesaid amount. It is expected that the trial will be concluded within a period of one year. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 471

Statute Text:
Section 471 of the Indian Penal Code. Using as genuine a forged document which is known to be forged. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had forged such document.