Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17189 of 2012 ====================================================== Arbind Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Ex-Mukhiya of the Panchayat is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant being the Panchayat Secretary that on 18.06.201 the signature was obtained on the paper but the actual charges were not handed over. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the charges were handed over on 18.06.2011 when the objection has been raised six months thereafter on 28.12.2011 when the present case was instituted. Considering the fact that the informant himself admitted that the charges were handed over on 18.06.2011, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17189 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2/2 a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur (Mufassil) P.S. Case No. 86 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.