Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38162 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Gandhi Maidan P.S. Case No. 47 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna. It is alleged against the petitioner that she impersonated Sumantra Jha, the wife of the brother of the informant and executed the sale deed with regard to the land of the informant’s family. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a poor lady and her thumb impression and photograph were taken for providing benefits under Indira Awas Scheme when she was not aware about the sale deed being executed. It appears that other accused Vijay Kumar @ Vijay Sah Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38162 of 2012 (3) dt.05-10-2012 2/2 has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 11576 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to 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: 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.