Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22721 of 2012 (2) dt.28-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22721 of 2012 ====================================================== Mohan Lal Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the complainant being the second wife of late Daroga Shukla that by making forgery one Manager Shukla and Ravindra Shukla executed power of attorney in favour of Mohan Lal Gupta who executed the sale deed in favour of his wife Anuradha Gupta and subsequently the wife of the petitioner executed sale deed in favour of Sulekha Devi. It is further alleged that Manager Shukla and Ravindra Shukla filed probate case which also got dismissed. It is submitted that on the basis of bonafide power of attorney the sale deed was executed and for the same cause of action Civil Suit no. 9/2012 has been filed in which compromise has been effected and statement to that effect has been made in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22721 of 2012 (2) dt.28-06-2012 paragraph 18 of the petition. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Complaint case no. 2948 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: 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.