Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11078 of 2012 ====================================================== Dr. Basuki Nath Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being Medical Officer is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making excess payment during pulse polio programme and thereby misappropriating Rs.19,920. It is submitted that even though money has not been misappropriated, the petitioner has deposited the aforesaid amount. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11078 of 2012 (3) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui in connection with Sikandara P.S. Case No. 152 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner shall be provisionally accepted till it is verified that the petitioner has deposited the aforesaid amount. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 408

Statute Text:
Section 408 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal breach of trust by a clerk or servant. Whoever, being a clerk or servant or employed as a clerk or servant, and being in any manner entrusted in such capacity with property, or with any dominion over property, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.