Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20432 of 2012 ====================================================== Inderjeet Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya allowed co-accused Sujit Kumar and Ramanand Singh to open forged Kisan Credit Card account with intention to defraud the Bank and Rs. 30,000/- was withdrawn by Sujit Kumar and Ramanand Singh. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is one of the identifiers of the account holders. It is further submitted that subsequently Ramanand Nand Singh deposited amount withdrawn and considering the same others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20432 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Karpi P.S. Case No. 121 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Jehanabad, 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: 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.