Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10113 of 2012 ====================================================== Vibha Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being lady Panchayat Sewak is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of not executing the scheme under MANREGA and defalcating the huge amount of money on the pretext of payment to the fictitious labourers. It is submitted that petitioner is not named in the FIR and the FIR was lodged against Panchayat Mukhia who has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 29725 whereas the name of the petitioner sprang up during investigation. 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10113 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 2 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura in connection with Singheshwar P.S. Case No. 53/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.