Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34943 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamlesh Das Bharti .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Rojgar Sevak is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating Rs.1,23,840/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the thrust of accusation is against the Post Master and Junior Engineer. It appears that other accused Shiv Balak Yadav has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 28194 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34943 of 2012 (2) dt.14-09-2012 2/2 court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Hisua P.S. Case No. 82 of 2012 pending in the court of learned CJM, Nawada. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.