Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11617 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. (Dr.) Kashi Nath Jha 2. Dr. Dearika Nath Jha. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar Through The .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the lecturer in Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Sections 13 and 14 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Initial FIR was lodged against Vice-Chancellor of Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University and five other officials of the said university for making illegal appointment and for financial misappropriations. The petitioners were not named in the FIR. The name of the petitioners subsequently sprang up on the ground that the petitioners also illegally got their regularization as lecturer done and received the emoluments. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11617 of 2012 (4) dt.13-07-2012 2/3 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners were appointed in the year 1979 as lecturer when the then Vice-Chancellor regularized the service of the petitioners but it was not given effect to, subsequently, in the year 2008, the then Vice-Chancellor set up a committee to enquire into the matter when in pursuance to the recommendation of the committee, the appointments have been regularized and petitioners are still in service whereas the FIR named accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court as well as by learned court below. Considering the fact that the Registrar of the University has been granted bail and the service of the petitioners have still not been terminated, 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 Special Judge, Vigilance, North Bihar, Muzaffarpur in connection with Special case No. 14 of 2011, L.N.M.U. P.S. Case No. 126 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11617 of 2012 (4) dt.13-07-2012 3/3 438(2) Cr.P.C. If the investigation is not concluded, then the petitioners will co-operate in the investigation. The non-co- operation of the petitioners in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution side to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.