Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25928 of 2012 ====================================================== Narayan Yadav .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner being the Panchayat Secretary alleged to have opened the accounts of the beneficiaries under Indira Awas Scheme and for giving the pass books, he demanded money from the beneficiaries and other accusation is of opening the fictitious accounts in the name of fictitious persons but actually the accounts were not opened. It is submitted that the work of sanctioning under Indira Awas Scheme is of the Panchayat Mukhiya but the Panchayat Mukhiya has not been made accused in the present case. Considering the nature of accusation, let the learned court below consider regular bail of the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25928 of 2012 (3) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Alamnagar P.S. Case No. 08 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Madhepura. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.