Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4280 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Kumar Choubey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 14-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being revenue karmchari is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he issued fake rent receipt to Shankar Bind. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that Shankar Bind was pressing for the rent receipt of the land on being declared surplus in the ceiling proceeding when the matter was sub-judice and on refusal the present case has been lodged. It has also been submitted that the petitioner has been put under suspension for the said alleged act. Considering the fact that the petitioner has already been proceeded departmentally, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4280 of 2012 (3) dt.14-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Kaimur, Bhabua in connection with Durgawati P.S. Case No. 191 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.