IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.9802 of 2009 ALOK KUMAR, SON OF HIRA LAL MAHTO, RESIDENT OF MOHALLA-KALYANI, KEDARNATH ROAD, NUNFAR GALI, P.S. TOWN, DISTRICT-MUZAFFARPUR. ………………………………………………………………………………………PETITIONER. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR…………………………………………………OPPOSITE PARTY. ----------- With Cr.Misc. No.12794 of 2009 SUNIL KUMAR SAH, SON OF LAKHAN SAH, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-MADHOPUR, P.S. MUSHAHARI, DISTRICT-MUZAFFARPUR………………………..PETITIONER. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR………………………………………………OPPOSITE PARTY. ----------- For the Petitioners : Mr. Bhubneshwar Prasad, Advocate (in Cr. Misc. No.9802 of 2009) and Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, Advocate(in Cr. Misc. No.12794 of 2009). For the State :Mr. Jharkhandi Upadhyay, A.P.P.(in both the cases). ----------- 2. 1.5.2009. Criminal Misc. No.9802 of 2009 filed by Alok Kumar and Criminal Misc. No.12794 of 2009 filed by Sunil Kumar Sah are taken up together as they arise out of the same Muzaffarpur Town P.S. Case No.464 of 2008 and having been heard together they are being disposed of by this common order. Both the petitioners are named in the F.I.R. and petitioner, Alok Kumar, is said to be the owner of the photocopier shop wherefrom fake residential certificates with the seal and signature of B.D.O., fake driving licence books with the seal and stamp of D.T.O. Muzaffarpur, owner books and blank papers with the seal of officers - 2 - were seized and he has also signed on the seizure list prepared. Petitioner, Sunil Kumar Sah , was found present at the shop at the relevant time. The claim of the petitioner, Sunil Kumar Sah, is that he was present in the shop by way of a customer and had nothing to do with the shop or the activities of the shop in question. So far as petitioner, Alok Kumar, is concerned, his defence is that he had no connection with the incriminating articles recovered in the shop and that the stamps and the papers were given to him for preparing photocopies thereof. I am not impressed by the story sought to be propounded by the learned counsel for the petitioner Alok Kumar. From the materials available on record and the recoveries made, it is apparent that the petitioner, Alok Kumar, indulged in preparing false and fabricated documents and used seals of different officers which gives a very serious complexion to the entire episode. Due regard being had to the facts and the circumstances of the case, while the prayer on behalf of the petitioner, Alok Kumar is rejected, Sunil Kumar Sah, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Muzaffarpur Town P.S. Case No.464 of 2008. P.S. (Abhijit Sinha,J) - 3 -