Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6618 of 2012 ====================================================== Dharmendra Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Surendra Kumar, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act. It is alleged that the petitioner and others realized Rs. 7500/- from the complainant and other 35 persons to have provided alleged forged appointment letters with promise that they will be engaged in NGO service. Subsequently, the office of NGO was found locked. It appears that prayer for anticipatory bail of other accused person Vijay Kishore Kushwaha has been rejected on 18.05.2010 by this Court. This Court thinks that the petitioner should also Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6618 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender and pray for regular bail within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Complaint Case No. 993 of 2009, Tr. No. 2489 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Bettiah, West Champaran. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.