Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.506 of 2012 ====================================================== Hakim Khan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 06-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that an examination pertaining to All India Polytechnic Scholarship was conducted by ASMA Institute in which one thousand students appeared but due to mismanagement, there was difference in question paper and the answer books and the collection thereof, which resulted in ransacking the office of B.N. College where examination was being conducted. FIR was lodged against the owner of ASMA Institute. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is not associated with ASMA and he runs an English Institute in the premises of ASMA Institute. The owner of ASMA institute was arrested and he signed on the arrest memo and that was the reason for suspicion being raised against the petitioner. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation raised against the petitioner, let the petitioner above named be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the 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 C.J.M. Patna in Pirbahore P.S. Case No. 140 of 2010 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.