Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15103 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Babu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.14939 of 2012 ====================================================== Surendra Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the clerk and Nazir of Amnour Block are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 21,194/- was shown as paid to the widow of late Lakhan Ram, Co-operative Extension, Officer, Amnour which has been encashed by two different bills on 17.03.2008 where no actual payment was made to the widow Gauri Devi when the head clerk made accusation against clerk Surendra Ram that he misplaced the payment register when it appears that earlier a case was also lodged against these Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15103 of 2012 (2) dt.25-04-2012 2/2 petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the entire amount of Rs. 21,194/- has been deposited before the authorities. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners 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 cash security of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Amnour P.S. Case No. 11 of 2012, 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.