Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14488 of 2012 ====================================================== Gulam Mustafa & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Petitioners’ prayer for anticipatory bail application was rejected twice vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 18771 of 2011 and 39372 of 2011. Petitioners have made third attempt on the ground that the informant has retracted from his initial version. It is further submitted that others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. This Court is not inclined to revise earlier order. However, let learned court below consider prayer for regular bai of petitioners keeping in view that the petitioners and the informant entered into compromise if the petitioners surrender within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14488 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2 / 2 2 a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Barari P.S. Case No. 183 of 2010 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Katihar. With this observation the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 409

Statute Text:
Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust by public servant or by banker, merchant or agent, etc. Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, 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.