Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1043 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Taslim .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 13-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he entered the name of Nusrat Saba in the draft voter list against the rule as Nusrat Saba never made application for making entry of her name. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is neither authorized to make any entry nor he made any entry or any verification with regard to the handwriting of the entry were made. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each 2 to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with S. Kamal P.S. Case No. 103 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anjani /- (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.