Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1796 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kumari Sanjoga 2. Smt. Jaitoon Nessa 3. Smt. Pramila Devi @ Parmila Kumari 4. Smt. Radha Kumari 5. Smt. Sanju @ Sanju Kumari 6. Hemlata 7. Snehlata Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 08/ 03-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of getting employment on contract basis as ANM on the basis of forged certificates. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that now the petitioners are not in service and the petitioners undertake to return the amount which they have received within a period of three months. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1796 of 2012 (8) dt.03-09-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail provisionally for six months in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Bagaha P.S. Case No. 393 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioners will be confirmed by the learned court below on return of the amount received by the petitioners. DKS/ (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.