Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28072 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajendra Pd. Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar Through Vi .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, Vigilance and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Spl. Case No. 16 of 1995 arising out of Mahishi P.S. Case No. 34 of 1985 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(c)(d) and 13(2) read with 13(1)(c)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act pending in the court of learned Vigilance Judge -II, Patna. It is alleged that the petitioner being the Panchayat Sewak prepared forged beneficiaries list of the flood victims whose house got damaged during flood. The petitioner was found responsible for the payment of Rs. 3,655/-. This Court is not inclined to interfere since the case was instituted in the year 1985. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28072 of 2012 (2) dt.08-08-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks keeping in view that misappropriation of meager amount has been alleged. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 477A

Statute Text:
Section 477A of the Indian Penal Code. Falsification of accounts. Whoever, being a clerk, officer or servant, or employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer or servant, willfully, and with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, paper, writing, valuable security or account which belongs to or is in the possession of his employer, or has been received by him for or on behalf of his employer, or willfully, and with intent to defraud, makes or abets the making of any false entry in, or omits or alters or abets the omission or alteration of any material particular from or in any such book, paper, writing, valuable security or account, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.