Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26732 of 2012 ====================================================== Kedar Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.28264 of 2012 ====================================================== Peyaria Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against petitioner Kedar Prasad being the Panchayat Secretary that he identified one of the fictitious person in whose account, the money of actual beneficiaries under Indira Awas Scheme was deposited, whereas it is alleged against the petitioner Peyaria Devi that in her account Rs. 24,000/- were transferred under the Indira Awas Scheme with regard to actual beneficiary Shitabdia Devi. It is submitted on behalf of Kedar Prasad that he is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26732 of 2012 (2) dt.31-07-2012 2/2 simply a witness to the identification of the account holder when the identification was done by the Panchayat Mukhiya, hence he has no occasion to disbelieve the identification made by the Panchayat Mukhiya. It is submitted on behalf of Peyaria Devi that she is ready to deposit Rs. 24,000/- before the learned court below within a period of three months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the present case. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Sheikhpura P.S. Case No. 354 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Till deposit of the aforesaid amount, the bail bond of the petitioner Peyaria Devill will be provisionally accepted by learned court below. Amrendra/- (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.