Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4505 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the manager of the go-down of F.C.I. is languishing in custody since 23.03.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating 129.56 quintals of rice of the F.C.I. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the S.D.M. conducted enquiry when he found no shortage of rice, moreover the charge sheet has been submitted. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4505 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bhagalpur in connection with Nathnagar P.S. Case No. 244 of 2006. 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.