Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5293 of 2012 ====================================================== Niraj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.6368 of 2012 ====================================================== Thakur Pradip Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-02-2012 Petitioners being Secretary and Assistant of the school are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Secretary did not supply the pass book to 48 students, hence misappropriation of fund was suspected. Other accusation is that godrej almirah was given for repair but the same was neither returned to the school or to the project office and in place of Singer sewing machine, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5293 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Sandhya sewing machine was made available. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that they will supply the respective pass books, godrej almirah and Singer sewing machine within a period of one months of their release. Considering the aforesaid stand of the petitioners, let the petitioners namely 1. Niraj Kumar 2. Thakur Pradip Singh, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Biharsharif at Nalanda in connection with Laheri P.S. Case No. 101 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.