Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11419 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Arti Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 05/ 18-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner’s husband Shri Ram Singh in collusion with guarantor Prem Pratap Singh got sanctioned loan of Rs. Seven lacs. on the basis of forged land deed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not aware about the loan. The husband of the petitioner, who is loanee, is now dead and till date no repayment has been made to the bank loan by the petitioner but the petitioner now Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11419 of 2012 (5) dt.18-05-2012 2/2 undertakes to repay the loan amount provided the bank gives reasonable time for arranging the loan amount. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the petitioner, who is now dead and the present undertaking of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her 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, Saran at Chapra in connection with Chapra Town P.S. Case No. 229 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted on filing of affidavit that she will repay the loan amount provided she will be given reasonable time by the bank for arranging the loan amount. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the concerned bank by the learned court below. 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.