Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5460 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jagdamba Prasad Dubey S/O Late Haribansh Dubey Resdient Of Village- Odera, P.O.- Mamrejpur, P.S.- Tanda, District- Faijabad (U.P.) .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sadanand Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 23.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Nityanand Chaurasia and Bablu Pandey claimed appointment on Class IV post on the basis of forged appointment letters issued from the Director, Agriculture, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. Subsequently it transpires that the forged appointment letters were supplied by the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that from whose possession appointment letters have been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5460 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2/2 recovered namely Bablu Pandey has been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44243 of 2011 and the investigation is complete. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri A.K. Singh, learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Ara Nawada P.S. Case No. 425 of 2011. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 167

Statute Text:
Section 167 of the Indian Penal Code. Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury. Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document, frames or translates that document in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.