Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3304 of 2012 ====================================================== Satendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 07-02-2012 Petitioner being booking clerk in the Railway is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Sections 27(b) ii, 27(d), 28, 28A of the N.D.P.S. Act. It is alleged that 12 cartoons of medicines were being transported from Delhi to Patna by Magadh Express. It was being carried by one Jaiki Kumar. Jaiki Kumar subsequently disclosed that the owner of the medicines is one Akhilesh Kumar who has taken S.L.R. bogie on lease. It was suspected that petitioner being booking clerk also connived in transportation of medicines out of which some of the medicines have narcotic chemical components also. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the lease stipulates all the liabilities of the lease holder for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3304 of 2012 (3) dt.07-02-2012 2 / 2 2 transportation of the alleged medicines. Considering the fact that medicines were seized from the possession of one Jaiki Kumar and admittedly owner of the medicines is Akhilesh Kumar, let the petitioner namely Satendra Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge, Patna in connection with Special Case No. 9 of 2011, arising out of GRP Case No. 37 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 474

Statute Text:
Section 474 of the Indian Penal Code. Having possession of a document, knowing it to be forged, with intent to use it as genuine; If the document is one of the description mentioned in section 466 of the Indian Penal Code. Whoever has in his possession any document, knowing the same to be forged, and intending that the same shall fraudulently or dishonestly be used as genuine, shall, if the document is one of the description mentioned in section 466 of this Code, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the document is one of the description mentioned in section 467, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.