Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40746 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Kumar .... .... 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 petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Agamkuan P.S. Case No. 224 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. The FIR was lodged on recovery of fake currency notes, stamps, NSCs and KVPs and demand drafts etc. It is alleged that part of the recovery has been made from the room of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not present when the recovery was made since he was away to the native village 15 days prior to the seizure. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40746 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 489E

Statute Text:
Section 489E of the Indian Penal Code. Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes. Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees. If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that that person caused the document to be made.