Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3550 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Kumar Singh @ Vijay Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner has renewed his prayer for anticipatory bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is with regard to misappropriating money with regard to construction of the school building. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the headmistress Shobha Devi and the BDO Ramji Sah and others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 33487 of 2011 and 39659 of 2011. Since the earlier anticipatory bail application was rejected, this Court is not inclined to interfere in the matter. However, since others have been granted anticipatory bail, this Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to grant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3550 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 regular bail in case the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Barahiya P.S. Case no. 126 of 2010 pending in the court of C.J.M. Lakhisarai. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. 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.