Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11319 of 2012 ====================================================== Naresh Chandra Yadav @ Naresh Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.11852 of 2012 ====================================================== Bishnudeo Ravidas@Bishnudeo Ravidas .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being Panchayat Secretaries are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making illegal appointment of Panchayat teachers in 2006. Specific statement has been made by the petitioner Naresh Chandra Yadav in paragraph 9 of the petition that vide memo no. 2075 dated 21.8.2007, the petitioner was posted as Panchayat Secretary in Sakraili Gram Panchayat and pursuant to that he remained there till 8.11.2008 whereas at the relevant time the other petitioner Bishundeo Ravidas was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11319 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Panchayat Secretary. Though none appears on behalf of petitioner Bishundeo Ravidas but considering the fact that Mukhia with similar allegation has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 20099 of 2010 and the accusation has been ventilated through complaint, let the above named petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Complaint Case No. 3602 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.