Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7355 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Rojgar Sewak is languishing in custody since 25.11.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of defalcating Rs. 8,41, 308/- of 36 different projects of the plantation during financial year 2009-10 whereunder either the work was not done or the labourers were not paid. It appears from the impugned order that the investigation is complete and the charge sheet has been submitted. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7355 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 2 / 2 2 to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champara, Motihar in connection with Rajepur P.S. Case No. 99 of 2011. Amrendra/- (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.