Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29258 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29258 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rina Kumari, 2. Sunita Kumari, 3. Satyendra Kumar, 4. Satish Kumar, 5. Nitesh Singh, 6. Pramila Devi, 7. Sri Niwas Sharma, 8. Sudhir Kumar alias Sudhir Kumar Singh, 9. Gajendra Sharma, 10. Dhananjay Mishra alias Dhananjay Kumar Mishra, 11. Diwakar Sharma, 12. Mahesh Prasad, 13. Dilip Kumar alias Dilip Kmar Paswan alias Ajay Kumar, 14. Arti Kumari, 15. Sheetal Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being Headmasters of Primary and Middle Schools are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioners failed to submit AC DC bills of the amount allotted under different heads. It is submitted that under general direction, FIR has been lodged against several persons and now all the petitioners have submitted the alleged bills and others have been granted anticipatory bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29258 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Uphara P.S. Case No. 18 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.