Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5760 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Umesh Yadav S/O Dipan Yadav R/O Village - Saguni Panchayat, P.S. Parsa, District - Saran .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the driver of the truck in question is languishing in custody since October, 2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s wheat was sent to Kolkata from Madhubani Ghat but the consignment could not reach to the consignee place then subsequently the owner admitted to pay the misappropriated amount of Rs.2,10,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the charge-sheet has been submitted. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5760 of 2012 (2) dt.01-03-2012 2/2 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Motihari Muffasil P.S. Case No. 160 of 2011, Tr. No. 1222 of 2011. DKS/ (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.