Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31771 of 2012 ====================================================== Bashishth Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.32676 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Kumar Sinha @ Umesh Prasad Sinha @ Umesh Prasad Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 25-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the State and the informant. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of non-disbursement of the amount to the beneficiaries whose crops were damaged by flood. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are Karamchari. A statement has been made in para 6 by petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31771 of 2012 (2) dt.25-09-2012 2/2 Bashishth Paswan that he was not member of the committee which approved the disbursement of the amount whereas it is submitted by petitioner Umesh Kuamr Sinha that he was not posted at the relevant place at the relevant time and moreover, the FIR has been lodged by a private person. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Madhepura in connection with Kumarkhand P.S. Case No. 162 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: 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.