Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42660 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ajit Kumar Singh @ Ajit Kumar S/O Ram Naresh Singh R/O Village- Mahadeopur, P.O.+P.S.- Masaurhi, District- Patna. 2. Fekan Choudhary S/O Ramprit Choudhary Resident Of Village- Bhadaura, P.S.- Masaurhi, District- Patna. 3. Baleshwar Prasad S/O Late Shivnarayan Prasad R/O Vill.- Keshav Chak, P.S.- Masaurhi, Distt.- Patna. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they received more than one coupon for kerosene oil though they were entitled for only one coupon. It is submitted that thrust of accusation is against the Panchayat Secretary who made distribution. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42660 of 2012 (2) dt.13-12-2012 2 / 2 2 court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Masaurhi P.S. Case No. 171 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Masaurhi, District-Patna, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 464

Statute Text:
Section 464 of the Indian Penal Code. None. A person is said to make a false document: Who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document, or makes any mark denoting the execution of a document, with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of a document was made, signed, sealed or executed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed, or at a time at which he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed; or Who, without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof, after it has been made or executed either by himself or by any other person, whether such person be living or dead at the time of such alteration; or Who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document, knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot, or that by reason of deception practised upon him, he does not know the contents of the document or the nature of the alteration.