Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23167 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23167 of 2012 ====================================================== Krishnandan Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 7 of the E.C. Act. On information that four trucks loaded with rice were standing in the campus of Bazar Samiti, a raid was laid and the loaded rice was seized. From the papers produced by the driver, it appeared that the rice was loaded from M/s Nav Durga Enterprises, U.P. and was to be unloaded to M/s Rukmini Bhandar, Biharsharif. It is submitted that it has come during investigation that firm of the petitioner was closed since last six years due to loss and the petitioner never claimed the rice in question. It is further submitted that some one else ordered for rice to be unloaded at the petitioner’s shop. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23167 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 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 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Laheri P.S. Case No. 161 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.