Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10529 of 2012 ====================================================== Deo Bahadur Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Petitioner being PDS dealer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that petitioner has stock of 1306.25 litres of kerosene oil in June, 2011, but he distributed only 1138.50 litres of kerosene oil, whereas the stock register shown the stock as nil, hence accusation has been levelled that petitioner sold 167.75 litres of kerosene oil in black market. It was also detected that petitioner given the kerosene oil to the non-entitled persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that without proper verification F.I.R. has been lodged, there was no complaint by the consumers against the petitioner and in pursuance to the present case the supply to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10529 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2 / 2 2 the PDS dealership of the petitioner has been stopped. Considering the nature of irregularities, let the petitioner namely Deo Bahadur Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Saran at Chapra in connection with Amnour P.S. Case No. 90 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 467

Statute Text:
Section 467 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery of a valuable security, will or authority to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive any money, etc. Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.