N.P.Singh and S.N.Jha JJ.

1. This is an application for bail filed on behalf of the petitioner, who is accused for offences under Sections 419, 420, 466, 467, 468, 471, 472 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as the Penal Code). The case, aforesaid, was registered by police on an information lodged by Shri Mahendra Prasad Singh, Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Hajipur.

2. According to the allegation made in the first information report, a case under Sec.302 of the Penal Code along with Sections 25-A and 26 of the Arms Act had been registered by Bidupur Police Station against one Suresh Singh and others. The prayer for bail made on behalf of Suresh Singh was rejected even by the High Court. After the rejection of the prayer for bail by the High Court, on 9-2-1985, a certified copy of the order purported to have been passed by the Supreme Court in Cr. Misc. Petition 213 of 1985 was filed on behalf of aforesaid Suresh Singh in the Court of the Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur, directing the release of said Suresh Singh. On the basis of that order, Suresh Singh was released on bail. Later it transpired that the order purported to have been passed by the Supr