Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9961 of 2012 ====================================================== Sulekha Devi & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, complainant and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the complainant being second wife of late Daroga Shukla that by making forgery one Manager Shukla and Ravindra Shukla executed power of attorney in favour of Mohan Lal Gupta who executed the sale deed in favour of his wife Anuradha Gupta (petitioner No. 2) and subsequently petitioner No. 2 in favour of one Sulekha Devi(petitioner No. 1). It is further alleged that Manager Shukla and Ravindra Shukla filed probate case which also got dismissed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are bona fide purchasers and forgery, if any, it has been committed by Manager Shukla and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9961 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Ravindra Shukla. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Sulekha Devi 2. Anuradha Devi @ Anuradha Gupta, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Complaint Case No. 2948 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.