Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29448 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Keshavjee @ Keshardeo Sharma 2. Md. Chunna @ Chunna @ Munna .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 18-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 7 of Essential Commodities Act. The FIR was lodged against the Assistant Godown Manager and Block Supply Officer with accusation that they used to realized commission from different fair price shop-keepers for lifting the food grains and kerosene oil from godown and kerosene depot. The name of the petitioners subsequently sprang up as they are employee of a firm and middle man respectively. A statement has been made in para 12 that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29448 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 2/2 the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the FIR named accused persons, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bhagalpur in connection with Sahkund P.S. Case No. 49 of 2011 (G.R. No. 775 of 2011), subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.