Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28111 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Kishor Ojha @ Vijay Shankar Ojha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.31161 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajan Singh @ Vipin Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in Maker P.S. Case No. 32 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran. 890 bags of rice having monogram of FCI were seized. The apprehended truck drivers indicated that the rice were loaded from the house of this petitioner when subsequently Birchandra and Ranjan Singh approached the police for release of the grains and vehicle when Birchan was apprehended along with Rs. 3,50,00/-. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28111 of 2012 (2) dt.08-08-2012 2/2 It appears that Birchandra has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 27399 of 2012. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.