Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19518 of 2012 ====================================================== Kedar Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of purchasing the solar lights on higher rates than the prescribed rates. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the purchase was actually made by the Mukhiya and there is nothing on record to suggest that solar lights were not fixed, hence at best, the accusation suggests only irregularity. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19518 of 2012 (2) dt.21-06-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Karande P.S. Case No. 42 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.