Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31972 of 2012 ====================================================== Alok Ranjan @ Sonu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus Union Of India Through C.B.I. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.29149 of 2012 ====================================================== Alok Ranjan @ Sonu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus Union Of India .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 10 21-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The forged cheques of LIC Chapra branch was stolen and by opening the forged account Rs. 14,29,000/-, 12,93,000/- and 16,82,000/- were withdrawn when two cases were lodged. The complicity of the petitioners surfaced in the 164 Cr.P.C. statement when it was alleged that the cheques were encashed by opening forged account when petitioners were also sharing the money withdrawn. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that neither account was opened in his name nor money was withdrawn by him. Moreover others have been granted regular bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31972 of 2012 (10) dt.21-11-201 2 / 22 2 Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Patna CBI/ACB, Case No. RC 3(S) of 2010/RC 4(S) of 2010, pending in the Court of learned Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Muzaffarpur With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.