Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16466 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Kumar Mishra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-05-2012 Petitioner being Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that she was sanctioned Rs. 25,000/- under Indira Awas Scheme under Scheme No. 210/2007-08, but the petitioner being panchayat Mukhiya took the money for getting the house constructed but the house was not constructed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that money was withdrawn by the informant in 2010 when the case was lodged in 2012 at the behest of political rivals of the petitioner. Petitioner is ready to deposit Rs. 25,000/- before learned Court below which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme in connection with present case which will be subject to the result of the case. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16466 of 2012 (2) dt.07-05-2012 2 / 2 2 On deposit of the aforesaid amount, let the petitioner namely Sanjay Kumar Mishra, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Khaira(Nagra) P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012. 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.