Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3049 of 2012 ====================================================== Upendra Rajak .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the PDS dealer is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that under Sampurn Gramin Rojgar Scheme, the petitioner was supplied certain grains in the year 2005 but some grains were not distributed for which the case was lodged in the year 2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that with the same accusation the certificate proceeding is going on in which the petitioner has appeared and other F.I.R. named accused persons were granted bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3049 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2 / 2 2 named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Sarsi P.S. Case No. 79 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. 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.