Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26505 of 2012 (2) dt.01-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26505 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Tedhku Rishideo S/O Late Kamal Rishideo .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 2 01-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 11.05.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] on the charges that being agent of a government school he along with other accused defalcated rupees one lac thirty five thousand. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that co- accused, Ashok Chandra Mishra and some others have already been granted privilege of bail by different Benches of this Court. It is further submitted by him that as a matter of fact, petitioner had already completed the entire work but the informant lodged this false case without making proper enquiry. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26505 of 2012 (2) dt.01-08-2012 bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Avinash Kumar, Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Madhepura in connection with Kumarkhand P.S. Case No. 83 of 2009. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.