Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10529 of 2012 ====================================================== Deo Bahadur Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Petitioner being PDS dealer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that petitioner has stock of 1306.25 litres of kerosene oil in June, 2011, but he distributed only 1138.50 litres of kerosene oil, whereas the stock register shown the stock as nil, hence accusation has been levelled that petitioner sold 167.75 litres of kerosene oil in black market. It was also detected that petitioner given the kerosene oil to the non-entitled persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that without proper verification F.I.R. has been lodged, there was no complaint by the consumers against the petitioner and in pursuance to the present case the supply to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10529 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2 / 2 2 the PDS dealership of the petitioner has been stopped. Considering the nature of irregularities, let the petitioner namely Deo Bahadur Singh, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Amnour P.S. Case No. 90 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.