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: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.