Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6267 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajeev Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-03-2012 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 Block Development Officer, Morwa that this petitioner took Rs. 3,000/- from three persons on behalf of Mukhiya, B.D.O. and the Collector. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that only on suspicion the FIR has been lodged and there is no proof with regard to the payment. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6267 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Samastipur in connection with Tajpur (Halali) P.S. Case No. 362 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.