Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4994 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kunal Kumar S/O Ashok Kumar Rai Resident Of Village Makardahi, P.S. Samastipur Town, District Samastipur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant has joint account with her father in the G.P.O., Samastipur and when her father died on 02.09.1999 from the said account Rs.60,000/-, 30,000/-, 12,000/- and 42,000/- were withdrawn on 01.03.2000, 24.04.2000, 05.07.2000 and 03.07.2000 respectively by this petitioner and his father. The petitioner happens to be the nephew of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for that the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4994 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 2/2 petitioner that the investigation is still pending and all of a sudden on 14.11.2011 the D.I.G. directed for arrest of the petitioner and other accused. The officials of the post office were granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below. Considering the nature of accusation and the fact that the investigation is pending, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur Town P.S. Case No. 488 of 2003, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The petitioner will file an affidavit to the effect that he will co-operate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O. by the learned court below. DKS/ (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.