Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39921 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Shankar Jaipuriar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant being the Director of Jan Siksha, Govt. of Bihar that from June, 1990 to May, 1995, Sambhu Kumar Lal and Mohan Prasad Singh and Munni Prasad Lal were posted as accountants when they failed to keep the passbook and the account book properly as a result of which Rs. 11,89,00,000/- was suspected to be misappropriated when the objection was raised. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not named in the FIR, his name subsequently sprang up during investigation and the investigation is still pending when the enquiry was conducted by five members committee where it has been found that there is no Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39921 of 2012 (2) dt.19-10-2012 2/2 misappropriation rather the accounts were not maintained properly and considering the same, FIR named accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above 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, Patna in connection with Sachivalaya P.S. Case No. 192 of 1999, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.