Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42588 of 2012 ====================================================== Digambar Choudhary @ Digamber Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that Rs. 5,00,000/- was given for providing employment when one Ravindra Paswan who happens to be the son-in-law of this petitioner gave some forged appointment letter. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the F.I.R. does not stipulate as to whom the money was actually paid nor any proof with regard to the payment has been brought on record when for the same occurrence two cases have been lodged and in other case the petitioner has been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Digambar Choudhary @ Digamber Choudhary, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42588 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga in connection with Bahadurpur P.S. Case No. 2 of 2012. Shageer/- (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.