Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40877 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40877 of 2012 ====================================================== Nirmal Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.40887 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kala Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being Nazir and member of the Anushravan Samiti are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of non-reimbursement of the amount to the beneficiaries whose crops were damaged. It is submitted that the petitioner were not authorized to disburse the amount. Statement to that effect has been made in paragraphs 6 and 10 of their respective bail petitions when the FIR has been lodged by a private person and the administration has not lodged any case. It is further submitted that petitioner Raj Kala Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40877 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 Devi is not named in the FIR. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 CJM, Madhepura in connection with Kumarkhand P.S. Case No. 162 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.