Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43108 of 2012 ====================================================== Mantu Sinha S/O Late Madan Mohan Prasad Resident Of Mohalla- Chandchoure, P.S.- Civil Lines Town, District- Gaya. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned Sessions Judge, Kaimur at Bhabua, disposed off the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner on the ground that stay is operating in the stay petition. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 6 of the petition that the petitioner never filed any quashing application. Let the learned Sessions Judge decide the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner on merits in connection with Complaint Case No. 755 of 2008, corresponding to Trial No. 995 of 2011 pending Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43108 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2 / 2 2 in the court of the learned C.J.M. Bhabua at Kaimur. With this observation, the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.