Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16416 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Kumar @ Umesh Kumar Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 2,50,000/- was taken by the petitioner on 13.07.2000 from the informant for running medicine business and purchasing land. He agreed to return the same but did not return. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that cause of action arose in 2000 when the case was instituted in 2003 and the investigation started in 2011 which gets reflected from the impugned order also and the investigation is till pending. Considering the nature of accusation arising Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16416 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2/2 out of contractual relationship between the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur (Town) P.S. Case No. 151 of 2003, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 469

Statute Text:
Section 469 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of harming the reputation of any person or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.