Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2983 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Lalan Prasad Singh 2. Hari Mohan Rai 3. Rajendra Prasad 4. Shambhu Kuwar 5. Radha Mohan Ram 6. Anil Kumar @ Anil Kumar Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 7 of Essential Commodities Act. The accusation is of misappropriation of the grains by the Assistant Manager of the F.C.I. It is alleged against the petitioners that they being the PDS dealers have also sold the grains in the black market. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation of selling the grains in black market is only on presumption as the stock Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2983 of 2012 (3) dt.12-04-2012 2/2 registers were properly maintained but it was presumed to be manipulated by the dealers. It is further submitted that since November petitioners have not been supplied grains and for the accusation levelled on 31.08.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged on 04.11.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Motihari Town P.S. Case No. 422 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.