Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28026 of 2012 ====================================================== Smt. Phoolo Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-08-2012 Petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner got appointment as A.N.M. on the basis of forged certificated. The verification was done by the Bihar School Examination Board when her matriculation certificate was found to be forged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was appointed in 1986 and she got her training of A.N.M. in 2001 and during training period verification was done when it was found to be genuine and this is the second round when same accusation has been levelled. It is further submitted that a departmental proceeding has also been initiated against the petitioner. Considering the fact that petitioner is a lady and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28026 of 2012 (2) dt.08-08-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner was being proceeded departmentally for the same charge, let the petitioner namely Smt. Phoolo Devi, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Goraul P.S. Case No. 233 of 2011. Let petitioner file affidavit before learned Court below that she will cooperate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.