Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32749 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahendra Pandey & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-09-2012 Petitioners being Headmasters of the Middle School are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners failed to submit AC/DC bill of the amount allotted under different heads. It is submitted that under general direction, the F.I.R. has been lodged without verifying the fact that most of the petitioners, prior to lodging of the F.I.R., have submitted the bills and others have been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Mahendra Pandey 2. Bhagwan Das, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32749 of 2012 (2) dt.07-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Uphara P.S. Case No. 18 of 2011. 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.