Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10927 of 2012 ====================================================== Shyam Nandan Mahton .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 06/ 06-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating Rs.19,36,000/- with regard to the scheme of fixing of the solar lights. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that during the investigation it has come that the solar lights were fixed and without making proper verification the FIR has been lodged. It is submitted by the learned APP that instead of fixing of solar lights at 42 places it was only fixed at 32 places and the investigation is still not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10927 of 2012 (6) dt.06-08-2012 2/2 complete. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail till submission of the charge-sheet in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Birupur P.S. Case No. 18 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: 468

Statute Text:
Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Forgery for the purpose of cheating. Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.