Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5110 of 2012 (2) dt.22-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5110 of 2012 ====================================================== Madan Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-02-2012 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 accusation is of misappropriating the money for grains supplied between 2001-06 under “Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojna” Scheme. It is submitted that on the request of the petitioner, the District Magistrate constituted a special audit team which found the petitioner liable for Rs. 18,622/- which was subsequently deposited by the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kopa P.S. Case No. 70 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5110 of 2012 (2) dt.22-02-2012 Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Saran at Chapra, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.