Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2049 of 2012 Nagendra Prasad Singh Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 23.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being Panchayat Secretary, is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Initially, the complaint was filed. It is alleged that the petitioner issued a death certificate with regard to Shanti Devi to the effect that she died on 7.4.2005. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since the informant got a registered deed executed fraudulently from Shanti Devi in his favour on 11.4.2005 claiming that she died on 14.5.2005, he is also facing prosecution. Considering the aforesaid facts and submissions, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M. Bikramganj in Dawath P.S. Case no. 105 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ (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.