Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8345 of 2012 ====================================================== Bira Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 19-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Executive Engineer at the relevant time is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 8.56 lakhs advance were given to Jamuna Prasad and Rajkumar Singh and Rs. 8.72 lakhs advance were given to Dhananjay Kumar Singh for tube well work but they completed the work worth Rs. 5.14 lakhs and Rs. 3.25 lakhs hence it is alleged that in connivance with this petitioner, the government money was misappropriated. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the FIR was registered in the year 2003 when the petitioner was not named but on 21.11.2011 the requisition was submitted for issuance of warrant against the petitioner and the investigation is still pending whereas departmental proceeding was initiated Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8345 of 2012 (3) dt.19-06-2012 2/2 against the petitioner also when the punishment of censor was inflicted against him and was further directed to deposit Rs. 1,89,581/- which gets reflected from Annexure-3A when said amount has been deposited by the petitioner. It is further submitted that other similarly situated accused person has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 35919 of 2010. Considering the fact that in the departmental proceeding for the same allegation the punishment has been inflicted and it is claimed that the alleged money has been deposited by the petitioner and the investigation is still pending, 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, Rohtas, Sasaram in connection with Sasaram (M) P.S. Case No. 235 of 2003, 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.