Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7023 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pramod Kumar 2. Haider Ali. 3. Amjad Hussain. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 5 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Complaint Case NO. 24(0) of 2011 in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara. The accusation is of making false statement before the Sessions Judge about filing the earlier anticipatory bail application in Charpokhari P.S. Case No. 190 of 2008. Though, earlier anticipatory bail application was rejected by the learned Sessions Judge when the advocate of the accused and the accused in the aforesaid case were asked to file show cause but they had not filed any show cause. In the circumstances, petitioners are permitted to file their show cause before learned Sessions Judge within a period of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7023 of 2012 (5) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 three weeks from today and after filing of the show cause, the petitioners will surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks when regular bail of the petitioner will be considered by learned court below keeping in view of the fact that the show cause of the advocate on record was accepted by learned court below. 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: 197

Statute Text:
Section 197 of the Indian Penal Code. Knowingly issuing or signing a false certificate relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence. Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.