Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10776 of 2012 ====================================================== Sudarshan Prasad Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.10779 of 2012 ====================================================== Neer Kamal Kumari @ Smt. Neer Kamal Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the headmaster and teacher of the school are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that the petitioners were allotted Rs. 75,000/- and Rs. 45,000/- for certain work in the school when they have not submitted the vouchers of expenditure. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that by general direction, the Block Development Officer directed to lodge the FIR against those who have not deposited the expenditure receipts and without verification of the fact that the alleged money has not been received by the petitioners the FIR has Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10776 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 2/2 been lodged. Considering the nature of accusation, 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Kutumba P.S. Case No. 37 of 2011, 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.