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: 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.