Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40497 of 2012 ====================================================== Vishwajit Singh @ Vishwajit Pratap Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that against the demand of Rs. 4,00,000/-, the informant paid Rs. 1,45,000/- for providing job when some appointment letter was issued which was found to be forged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is posted in arm forces and on the alleged date of occurrence, he was on duty, a certificate to that effect has been issued by the Controlling Officer which has been annexed as Annexure-2 when other accused has been granted anticipatory bail by learned court below itself. 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40497 of 2012 (2) dt.08-11-2012 2/2 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas in connection with Sanjhauli P.S. Case No. 77 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.