Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20181 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shankar Paswan S/O Late Kampani Paswan Resident Of Village- Lakshmipur, Dhanauri, P.S.- Surajgarha, District- Lakhisarai .... Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH ORAL ORDER 2. 31-05-2012. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner seeks bail in East Colony P.S. Case No. 13 of 2009 registered for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has been implicated in the case on a very tenuous ground. The main allegation is against one P.K. Rai who is the Agent through whom the informant sent his NSC totaling Rs.1,80,000/- to be renewed for another year which was not done. The Agent is said to have withdrawn the money and used it for his own purpose. It is submitted that the petitioner has been made an accused later on during investigation only on the basis of suspicion inasmuch as he is said to be an employee in the Post Office where the incident occurred. Learned counsel submits that even on the date of occurrence, the petitioner was not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20181 of 2012 (2) dt.31-05-2012 2 present in the Post Office concerned. The petitioner is in custody since 26.3.2012 and has clean antecedent.. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for bail and submits that the incident occurred due to connivance of the postal officials and the petitioner being posted in the said Post office cannot claim to be innocent. Upon hearing learned counsel for the parties and considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the abovenamed petitioner is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with East Colony P.S. Case No. 13 of 2009. ahk/- (Ahsanuddin Amanullah, 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.