Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1934 of 2012 Pintu Singh Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 19.1.2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in the petition, as prayed for. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . One stolen Bolero vehicle was found in front of the house of the petitioner when the forged registration was recorded in the name of co accused Jai Shankar Pandey. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he has no claim over the vehicle in question and the other accused person has been granted bail by Annexure 2. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of SDJM, Bikramganj (Rohtas) in Suryapura P.S. Case no. 16 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ (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.